1 Maccabees

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The First Book of Maccabees, also called 1 Maccabees, is a book written in Hebrew by an anonymous Jewish author after the restoration of an independent Jewish kingdom by the Hasmonean dynasty, around the late 2nd century BC. The original Hebrew is lost and the most important surviving version is the Greek translation contained in the Septuagint. The book is held as canonical scripture by the Catholic, Orthodox, and Oriental Orthodox churches, but not by Protestant denominations nor any major branches of Judaism; it is not part of the Tanakh. Some Protestants consider it to be an apocryphal book.

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Mattathias
Judah Maccabee
Simon Thassi
Jonathan Apphus
John Gaddi
Eleazar Avaran
Antiochus IV Epiphanes
Antiochus V
Alexandros Balas
Lysias
Demetrius I Soter
Demetrius II Nicator
Antiochus VII Sidetes
Gorgias
Nicanor
Antiochus VI Dionysus
Diodotus Tryphon
Bacchides
Alcimus

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