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Noun: Judas Maccabaeus
  1. Jewish leader of a revolt in Judea that recovered Jerusalem around 166 BC; hero of the Apocryphal books I Maccabees and II Maccabees (?-161 BC)
    - Judas Maccabeus

Type of: leader

Encyclopedia: Judas Maccabaeus