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Maccabees
Priestly family of Jews who organized a successful rebellion against Antiochus IV Epiphanes in Palestine and reconsecrated the defiled Temple of Jerusalem. The rebellion began under the leadership of the Jewish priest Mattathias after Antiochus sought to stamp out Judaism by forbidding all Jewish practices and desecrating the temple (167 BC). When Mattathias died (c.166 BC), his son Judas Maccabaeus recaptured Jerusalem and reconsecrated the temple. After Judas's death, the war continued intermittently under his brothers Jonathan and Simon. The Maccabees formed the Hasmonean dynasty.
MacIver
Scottish-U.S. sociologist and political scientist. Educated at Edinburgh and Oxford, he taught at the Univ. of Aberdeen and later at Canadian and U.S. universities, principally Columbia (1915-26). He believed in the compatibility of individualism and social organization, and saw societies as evolving from highly communal states to states in which individual functions and group affiliations were extremely specialized. His works included The Modern State (1926), Leviathan and the People (1939), and The Web of Government (1947).
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