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This is a work for anyone interested in the political and cultural results of the entry of the small state of Judah and its capital Jerusalem into the wider Hellenistic world in the second century BCE. In particular it forms a helpful introduction to the biblical writing called 1 Maccabees, which is preserved in the Apocrypha. 1 Maccabees is a history of the rebellion of the Jews against their...

1 THE ORIGIN OF 1 MACCABEES The Apocrypha The first questions that should be asked of any important document, ancient or modern, are those of origin. Where did this document come from, and how did it get to us? Today we are familiar with 1 Maccabees as a book to be found among the writings of the Apocrypha. The Apocrypha contains Jewish writings dating from the period between the third century BCE and the first century CE and preserved in the Greek language. These writings, apart from the book known
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