1 Maccabees has been seen by contemporary scholars as a text promoting proto-Jew
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1 Maccabees has been seen by contemporary scholars as a text promoting proto-Jewish nationalism. With this in mind, what were the issues, connections, or shared values that bound together the members of the Jewish Revolt described in 1 Maccabees?
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The scholar and poet Aaron Kaminka (1866-1950) thinks the name is a corruption of Machbanai, a leading commando in the army of King David (I Chron. 12:13).
Jewish tradition saw it as the initials of the battle-cry, Mi Chamocha Ba-elim HaShem, “Who is like You among the mighty, O Lord?” (Ex. 15:11)
The story of the Maccabees is told in 1 Maccabees and 2 Maccabees, which are deuterocanonical books in some Christian biblical canons, and in 3 Maccabees and 4 Maccabees, which are in a few Eastern Christian canons. 1 Maccabees and 2 Maccabees are part of the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox canons, but not part of the ProtestantOld Testament or the Jewish Bible.
The Maccabees, also spelled Machabees , were the leaders of a Jewish rebel army that took control of Judea, which at the time had been a province of the Seleucid Empire. They founded the Hasmonean dynasty, which ruled from 164 BCE to 63 BCE. They reasserted the Jewish religion, partly by forced conversion, expanded the boundaries of Judea by conquest and reduced the influence of Hellenism andHellenistic Judaism.
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