First Book of Maccabees

GPTKB entity

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:historical_documents
New Testament apocrypha
deuterocanonical book
gptkbp:author unknown
gptkbp:chapter 16
gptkbp:dateWritten late 2nd century BCE
gptkbp:describesEvent rededication of the Second Temple
origin of Hanukkah
gptkbp:excludes gptkb:Hebrew_Bible
gptkbp:firstPublished 15th century (in Greek and Latin translations)
gptkbp:genre history
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label First Book of Maccabees
gptkbp:includedIn gptkb:Hebrew_Bible
gptkbp:influenced later Jewish and Christian literature
gptkbp:influencedBy Jewish history
gptkbp:language Hebrew (originally)
Greek (surviving text)
gptkbp:notableFigure gptkb:Jonathan_Apphus
gptkb:Judas_Maccabeus
gptkb:Mattathias
gptkb:Simon_Thassi
gptkbp:period 175–134 BCE
gptkbp:relatedWork gptkb:Second_Book_of_Maccabees
Fourth Book of Maccabees
Third Book of Maccabees
gptkbp:setting gptkb:Judea
gptkbp:significance historical source for Hasmonean period
gptkbp:status apocryphal in Protestant Bibles
not part of Jewish Tanakh
canonical in Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Bibles
gptkbp:subject gptkb:Hasmonean_dynasty
gptkb:Maccabean_Revolt
gptkbp:survivingWorks gptkb:Greek
gptkb:Latin
gptkb:Syriac
gptkbp:theme gptkb:Jewish_community
religious freedom
restoration of the Temple
struggle against Hellenization
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Second_Book_of_Maccabees
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6