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Macc.

American  

abbreviation

  1. Maccabees.


Macc. British  

abbreviation

  1. Maccabees (books of the Apocrypha)

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By the insurgents under the leadership of Judas Maccabeus; 2 Macc. chap. viii.

From The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems by Purves, D. Laing

It is suggested that the name Aristobulus was taken from 2 Macc. i.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" by Various

The biblical references are 1 Macc. i. 41-64, iv. 36-39; 2 Macc. vi. 1-11; John x.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" by Various

A notice of its history in 147 B.C. is found in 1 Macc. x.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 2 "Ehud" to "Electroscope" by Various

This may have been Amos’s Gilgal and was almost certainly that of 1 Macc. ix.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" by Various

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