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| rdfs:comment | - The First Book of Maccabees is a book written by a Jewish author after the restoration of an independent Jewish kingdom, probably about 100 BCE. It is included in all Christian Bibles ("canons") except most Protestant ones. Jews and most Protestants regard it as generally reliable historically, but not a part of Scripture. These Protestants usually call such religious books "Apocrypha". Some people call "deuterocanonical" the books received in Greek and regarded as part of the Holy Scripture by some Christian Churches, like 1 Maccabees.
- The First Book of the Maccabees is a history of the struggle of the Jewish people for religious and political liberty under the leadership of the Machabee family, with Judas Machabeus as the central figure. After a brief introduction (i, 1-9) explaining how the Jews came to pass from the Persian domination to that of the Seleucids, it relates the causes of the rising under Mathathias and the details of the revolt up to his death (i, 10-ii); the glorious deeds and heroic death of Judas Machabeus (iii-ix, 22); the story of the successful leadership of Jonathan (ix, 23-xii), and of the wise administration of Simon (xiii-xvi, 17). It concludes (xvi, 18-24) with a brief mention of the difficulties attending the accession of John Hyrcanus and with a short summary of his reign (see Maccabees, THE
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| abstract | - The First Book of Maccabees is a book written by a Jewish author after the restoration of an independent Jewish kingdom, probably about 100 BCE. It is included in all Christian Bibles ("canons") except most Protestant ones. Jews and most Protestants regard it as generally reliable historically, but not a part of Scripture. These Protestants usually call such religious books "Apocrypha". Some people call "deuterocanonical" the books received in Greek and regarded as part of the Holy Scripture by some Christian Churches, like 1 Maccabees.
- The First Book of the Maccabees is a history of the struggle of the Jewish people for religious and political liberty under the leadership of the Machabee family, with Judas Machabeus as the central figure. After a brief introduction (i, 1-9) explaining how the Jews came to pass from the Persian domination to that of the Seleucids, it relates the causes of the rising under Mathathias and the details of the revolt up to his death (i, 10-ii); the glorious deeds and heroic death of Judas Machabeus (iii-ix, 22); the story of the successful leadership of Jonathan (ix, 23-xii), and of the wise administration of Simon (xiii-xvi, 17). It concludes (xvi, 18-24) with a brief mention of the difficulties attending the accession of John Hyrcanus and with a short summary of his reign (see Maccabees, THE). The book thus covers the period between the years 175 and 135 B.C.
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