Judas Maccabaeus

noun

1. Maccabaeus, Judas.

Judas Maccabaeus

/ ˌmækəˈbiːəs /

noun

1. Jewish leader, whose revolt (166–161 _bc ) against the Seleucid kingdom of Antiochus IV (Epiphanes) enabled him to recapture Jerusalem and rededicate the Temple

Example Sentences

We ended the service with an old Methodist rabble-rouser, “Thine Be the Glory, Risen Conquering Son,” sung to a tune from Handel’s “Judas Maccabaeus.”

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First performed in 1747, Judas Maccabaeus was among Handel's most popular works in the 18th and 19th centuries, though nowadays we are apt to regard it as among his most controversial.

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This Messianic expectation had been a fermenting leaven since the great days of Judas Maccabaeus.

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The music for this finale is lifted from the “Hallelujah” chorus that concludes Handel’s oratorio “Judas Maccabaeus.”

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Its shapely arias and robust choruses are mostly hymns of praise, either to God or to Judas Maccabaeus, the general who led the Israelite army, with occasional paeans to liberty and rejections of idolatry.

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