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Feast of the Maccabees
Feast of the Maccabees see Hanukkah .
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Maccabee Group Public Relations Announces 'NODE,' New Online Reputation and Social Media Practice.
PR Newswire; 5/6/2009; 700+ words
; ...MINNEAPOLIS, May 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Maccabee Group Public Relations today announced...reputation management practice. Through Maccabee Group/NODE, the Minneapolis-based...Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. Leading Maccabee Group/NODE will be Mike Weiner, who...
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1 Maccabees
Magazine article from: Journal of Biblical Literature; 1/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; 1 Maccabees, by John R. Bartlett. Sheffield...Bartlett did write a commentary on 1 and 2 Maccabees in 1973 (Cambridge University Press...familiar with the important work on 1 Maccabees. Still, one might wish to add some...
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The Books of the Maccabees: History, Theology, Ideology; Papers of the Second International Conference on the Deuterocanonical Books, Pápa, Hungary, 9-11 June, 2005
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly; 4/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...ZSENGELLR (eds.), The Books of the Maccabees: History, Theology, Ideology; Papers...John Kampen, "The Books of the Maccabees and Sectarianism in Second Temple Judaism...30); Jack Pastor, "The Famine in 1 Maccabees: History or Apology?" (pp. 31...
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3 Maccabees and Esther: Parallels, Intertextuality, and Diaspora Identity
Magazine article from: Journal of Biblical Literature; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...issue of literary dependence between 3 Maccabees and Esther-both the Hebrew and the...to identify the historical kernel of 3 Maccabees; a century later, this question is...Philip Alexander's article titled "3 Maccabees, Hanukkah and Purim."1 Scholarly...
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An Archeological Find Is Not Tomb of Maccabees
Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered; 12/25/1995; 700+ words
; ...initially thought to be the tomb of the Maccabees, the protagonists of the Hanukkah story...Archaeologists said it was the grave of the Maccabees, the family of protagonists in the Hanukkah...Israelis the possibility of finding the Maccabees' tomb was cause for excitement, but...
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History of a 'macabre' Chanukah tale: Martyrdom of Maccabees ensured their story would be preserved by the Catholic Church.
Newspaper article from: Cleveland Jewish News; 12/15/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...macabre' Chanukah tale: Martyrdom of Maccabees ensured their story would be preserved...story of Chanukah, The First Book of Maccabees, written originally in Hebrew in 136...This is followed by The Second Book of Maccabees, a parallel, but entirely separate...
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Macabees seeks state approval to demutualize and be acquired by Royal Insurance. (Maccabees Mutual Life Insurance Co., Royal Financial Services Inc.)
PR Newswire; 10/6/1988; 700+ words
; ...Mich., Oct. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Maccabees Mutual Life Insurance Company announced...to a stock company. Under the plan, Maccabees will be purchased by Royal Financial...in capital note funds to be added to Maccabees' surplus. Under the plan, which must...
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The Maccabean Martyrs as Saviours of the Jewish People: A Study of 2 and 4 Maccabees
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly; 7/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...Jewish People.- A Study of 2 and 4 Maccabees (JSJSup 57; Leiden/ New York/Cologne...undertakes a study of martyrdom in 2 and 4 Maccabees. Yet behind the detailed treatment of...introduction to the "martyrs" in 2 and 4 Maccabees, v.H. gives concise critical introductions...
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'MACCABEES' Debuts at the Jewish Children's Museum.
PR Newswire; 11/21/2006; 700+ words
; ...take personal pride in the Maccabees' miraculous victory." During their MACCABEES journey, children will...palace * UNITE with Judah the Maccabee and his band of fighters...LISTEN and LEARN throughout MACCABEES will run at the Jewish Children...
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Maccabees demutualization and acquisition by Royal completed. (Maccabees Life Insurance Co., Royal Financial Services Inc.)
PR Newswire; 1/4/1989; 700+ words
; MACCABEES DEMUTUALIZATION AND ACQUISITION BY ROYAL COMPLETED...SOUTHFIELD, Mich., Jan. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Maccabees Life Insurance Company announced today that, effective Jan. 1, 1989, Maccabees was reorganized by converting from a mutual...
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Maccabees
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Maccabees two books included in the Septuagint and placed as the...the Apocrypha in Protestant Bibles. First and Second Maccabees are both historical narratives. First Maccabees was originally written in Hebrew and is usually dated...
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Maccabees, Books of
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
...the Protestant Apocrypha . Maccabees I and II are modelled on the...the Jewish dynasty of the Maccabees. In 165 bc, Judas Maccabee led a revolt against the Seleucid...resistance to Syrian domination. Maccabees III and IV are Pseudepigrapha...
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Maccabee
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Maccabee a member or supporter of a Jewish family...167 bc, as recorded in the Books of the Maccabees (see below). The term is occasionally...Methodists is recorded by John Wesley. The Maccabees are four books of Jewish history and theology...
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Judah the Maccabee
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
Judah the Maccabee (2nd cent. BCE). Jewish warrior. Judah Maccabee was the third son of Mattathias, the Hasmonean , who led the revolt against the rule of Antiochus Epiphanes in Erez Israel . The story of his campaigns is told in the Books of Maccabees .
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Maccabees, books of
Book article from: A Dictionary of the Bible
Maccabees, books of Four books recording the struggle of loyalist Jews against...which is inappropriately named, since it is not concerned with the Maccabees but is a fictitious work compiled by a Jew in Alexandria at about the...
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