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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Gottheil, Richard; Singer, Isidore (1904). "Maccabæanm, The". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia . Vol. 8. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 238.
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