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Date: 2014-07-09 16:20:42 Bible Septuagint Christian biblical canon Insurgents Maccabees Seleucid Empire Mattathias Biblical apocrypha Hasideans Jewish history Hasmoneans Christianity		20-1Mc-NETS-4.qxd[removed]:31 PM Add to Reading List Source URL: ccat.sas.upenn.edu Download Document from Source Website File Size: 594,70 KB Share Document on Facebook

	1 G.G. Xeravits and J. Zsengellér, eds. The Books of the Maccabees: History, Theology, Ideology. JSJS 118. Leiden: Brill, 2007. Pp. xi + 245. ISBN: . $USD, cloth. 1. This volume of essays is, with a DocID: 1rXAX - View Document
	Daniel chapter 8 versestells of the “Transgression of Desolation” that will come upon the Jews and the temple and the “2300 days” before the temple will be cleansed once again. This period of time is expla DocID: 1qTsY - View Document
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	GREKSpringBIBLICAL READINGS supplement to Shelmerdine Chapter 22 The books of the Maccabees (“Hammers”) relate the second century BCE revolt of Jews in Palestine against Seleucid rulers who tried to for DocID: 1qH9Y - View Document
	THE MACCABEES Mattathias the Hasmonean, sparked the revolt against the Seleucid (Grecian) Empire (specifically Antiochus IV Epiphanes) by refusing to worship the Greek gods. Mattathias killed a Hellenistic Jew who stepp DocID: 1qGGh - View Document