Maccabean a. : Of or pertaining to Judas Maccabeus or to the Maccabees; as, the Maccabean princes; Maccabean times.Example:The Maccabean versus Hasmonean Dynasties?TaxonomyMaccabees, Antiochus, Judea, Maccabean Revolt, High Priest, Mattathias, Jews, Seleucid Empire, feast, Menelaus, Seleucid, Simon, conflict, death, revolt, king, Hasmonean kingdom, Judah Maccabee.Defination from the web:... Modern scholarship on the other hand considers the Maccabean revolt less as an uprising against foreign oppresion than as a civil war between the ...
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