Usage examples for Maccabean
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Out of the heat and conflict of the Maccabean struggle the parties of the Pharisees and Sadducees sprang into existence and won their commanding place in the life of Judaism. – The Makers and Teachers of Judaism by Charles Foster Kent
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Those in the first three books existed at the time when the latter were made up; those in the last two were prefixed partly at the time when the collections themselves were made, and partly in the Maccabean age. – The Canon of the Bible by Samuel Davidson
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The Maccabean princes were also called Asmoneans. – Studies in Old Testament History by Jesse L. Hurlbut