65 examples of maccabean in sentences

Out of the heat and conflict of the Maccabean struggle the parties of the Pharisees and Sadducees sprang into existence and won their commanding place in the life of Judaism.

THE GREEK AND MACCABEAN AGE Section CIV.

THE CAUSES OF THE MACCABEAN STRUGGLE I Mac.

THE DECLINE OF THE MACCABEAN KINGDOM Jos. Jew.

Political, Intellectual, and Religious Effects of the Maccabean Struggle.

LIST OF MAPS AND CHARTS JEWISH AND CONTEMPORARY CHRONOLOGY FROM 597 TO 165 B.C. THE EMPIRES OF BABYLONIA, PERSIA, AND ALEXANDER THE JEWISH COMMUNITY IN PALESTINE DURING THE PERSIAN AND GREEK PERIODS THE JERUSALEM OF NEHEMIAH CHRONOLOGY OF THE MACCABEAN AND ROMAN PERIODS PALESTINE DURING THE MACCABEAN PERIOD

LIST OF MAPS AND CHARTS JEWISH AND CONTEMPORARY CHRONOLOGY FROM 597 TO 165 B.C. THE EMPIRES OF BABYLONIA, PERSIA, AND ALEXANDER THE JEWISH COMMUNITY IN PALESTINE DURING THE PERSIAN AND GREEK PERIODS THE JERUSALEM OF NEHEMIAH CHRONOLOGY OF THE MACCABEAN AND ROMAN PERIODS PALESTINE DURING THE MACCABEAN PERIOD

It was not revived until the military victories of the Maccabean era had again brought prominently to the front this phase of national glory (cf.

At several points Job approaches very close to the belief in individual immortality which became a commonly accepted tenet in the trying days of the Maccabean struggle.

Their love for it steadily grew until two centuries later during the Maccabean persecutions there were many who were ready to lay down their lives for it.

* THE GREEK AND MACCABEAN AGE Section CIV.

The Greek period began with Alexander's conquest of Palestine in 332 and extended to the Maccabean uprising in 168 B.C.

It opens with the beginnings of the Maccabean struggle, and traces the history, with increasing detail, to the destruction of Jerusalem and the suppression of the Jewish revolt at Gyrene, two or three years before the book was written.

Where its testimony differs from that of I Maccabees, the latter in general should be followed, but its account of the events which led to the Maccabean uprising are much more detailed than those of I Maccabees, which it supplements at many important points.

The first cause, therefore, of the Maccabean struggle was the apostasy of certain of the Jews themselves.

Its exultation over the slaughter of thousands of the heathen is displeasing even in a romance, although it can easily be understood in the light of the Maccabean age in which it was written. III.

But a powerful group, which during the Maccabean period appeared for the first time under the name of Pharisees, began to withdraw their allegiance and silently, at least, to protest against a high priest whose chief ambition was conquest.

The Maccabean period gave to the Jews a greatly enlarged intellectual vision and led them to adopt many of the ideas of their Greek conquerors.

One of the chief results of Herod's policy and reign was the complete extinction of the Maccabean house.

The Maccabean struggles and victories, however, and the oppressive rule of Rome stirred this smouldering hope into a flame and gave it wide currency among the people at the beginning of the Christian era.

Memories of the glorious achievements of the Maccabean leaders kindled the popular imagination.

THE GREEK AND MACCABEAN AGE Section CIV.

The Causes of the Maccabean Struggle.

The causes of the fall of the Maccabean kingdom.

The Parthian conquest and the temporary restoration of the Maccabean rule.

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