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Judas Maccabæus
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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A son of Mattathias (q. v .), who succeeded his father in the leadership of the Jews against the Syrians in the war of the Maccabees, and who gave name to the movement, a man of chivalric temper, great energy, firm determination, dauntless courage, and powerful physique; who, with the elect of his countrymen of kindred spirit encountered and overthrew the Syrians in successive engagements, till before a great muster of the foe his little army was overwhelmed and himself slain in 160 B.C. See Maccabees .
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Judas Maccabæus'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/j/judas-maccabus.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Judas Maccabæus'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/j/judas-maccabus.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
