In boasting of his support among African American voters, Donald Trump made some false and misleading statements: 1  Trump claimed âAfrican American youth is 58 percent unemployed.â The official unemployment rate for blacks ages 16 to 19 in January was 25.2 percent.
For other uses, see Maccabees (disambiguation). The Maccabees, also spelled Machabees (Hebrew: ××××× or ××§×××ââ, Maqabim; Latin: Machabaei or Maccabaei; Greek: Î¼Î±ÎºÎºÎ±Î²Î±á¿Î¿Î¹, Makkabaioi), were the leaders of a Jewish rebel army that took control of Judea, which at the time had been a province of the Seleucid Empire.
These chronicles are not included in the Hebrew Bible because the Men of the Great Assembly had decided many years earlier what the Hebrew Bible should consist of and these events occurred much later in time. The Books of the Maccabees were both written in the first century BCE. I Maccabees was originally written in Hebrew as an official court history for the Hasmonean Dynasty. II Maccabees was originally written in Greek and based on earlier work written by Jason of Cyrene. This revolt of the Jews sets a precedent in human history. It is the worldâs first ideological/religious war.