Maccabees (English, name)
expansion: Maccabees
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topics: biblical
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glosses: One of two books of the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox canon of the Old Testament, considered apocryphal by Protestants.
topics: history
human-sciences
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glosses: A Jewish liberation movement who fought for, and established, independence in the Land of Israel during the second and first centuries BC.
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