Maccabees vs Bible - What's the difference?
maccabees | bible |
(biblical) A book of the Old Testament Apocrypha.
(history) A Jewish liberation movement who fought for, and established, independence in the Land of Israel during the second and first centuries BC.
A comprehensive manual that describes something. (e.g., handyman’s bible).
* 1995 , Gary Wolf, "The Curse of Xanadu",
(nautical) A holystone.
Collection of sacred writing of the Christian religion
As nouns the difference between maccabees and bible
is that maccabees is while bible is a specific version, edition, translation, or copy of one of the above-mentioned texts.As a proper noun bible is
the main religious text in christianity or bible can be .maccabees
English
(wikipedia Maccabees) (Books of the Maccabees)Noun
(head)Proper noun
(en proper noun)bible
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(wikipedia bible)Noun
(en noun)Wired Magazine
- Computer Lib was written as a popular primer, but its most profound effect was on computer programmers, who needed little persuasion about the value of computers. Its tone – energetic, optimistic, inexhaustible, confused – matched theirs exactly. Having set out to appeal to the general public, Nelson managed to publish an insider's bible and highly intimate guide to hacker culture.
