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Books of the Maccabees were originally five books of the Maccabees.<ref name="m">{{Easton|Maccabees}}</ref> The first contains a history of the war of independence, commencing (B.C. 175) in a series of patriotic struggles against the tyranny of Antiochus Epiphanes, and terminating B.C. 135.<ref name="m"/> It became part of the Vulgate Version of the Bible, and was thus retained among the Apocrypha.<ref name="m"/>

'''Books of the Maccabees''' were originally five books of the Maccabees.<ref name="m">{{Easton|Maccabees}}</ref> The first contains a history of the war of independence, commencing (B.C. 175) in a series of patriotic struggles against the tyranny of Antiochus Epiphanes, and terminating B.C. 135.<ref name="m"/> It became part of the Vulgate Version of the Bible, and was thus retained among the Apocrypha.<ref name="m"/>

The second gives a history of the Maccabees' struggle from B.C. 176 to B.C. 161.<ref name="m"/> Its object is to encourage and admonish the Jews to be faithful to the religion of their fathers.<ref name="m"/>

The second gives a history of the Maccabees' struggle from B.C. 176 to B.C. 161.<ref name="m"/> Its object is to encourage and admonish the Jews to be faithful to the religion of their fathers.<ref name="m"/>

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