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The Maccabean Revolt

Judaea · Seleucid Empirec. 2nd c. BCEContext: Douay–Rheims

1 Maccabees records the Jewish uprising against Antiochus IV and the rededication of the Temple — the event behind the feast of Hanukkah. A deuterocanonical book of the Catholic Old Testament.

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