The Fine Arts of Judas Maccabaeus

Judas Maccabaeus Cultural Highlights


Judas Maccabaeus in Art, Music, Literature, and Theater

Art
Libri Maccabaeorum, a medieval illustrated manuscript (900s AD)
Josephus, illustrations by Jean Fouquet
Chapel of the Dead in Tournai Cathedral, by Rubens
Illustrated English Bible, illustrated by Paul Gustave Dore (1865-7)
Nine Heroes Tapestries, at the Metropolitan Museum (South Netherlands, 1400-1410)

Music
Judas Maccabaeus, an Oratorio by George Frideric Handel (1746)
Song of Judas Maccabeus Before the Battle of Maspha, by Rebekah Hyneman (1816-1875)
The Battle-Cry of the South, by James R. Randall (1860s)

Literature
Old English Homilies on The Maccabees, by Aelfric (c. 1000) edited by Stuart D. Lee
El Maccabeo, by Miguel de Silveyra. (Naples, 1638)
La chevalerie de Judas Macabe, by Pierre du Ryer (1600-1658)
Judas Machabaeus, a Neo-Latin text (Rome 1695)
Judas Makkabaeus, by Josef Eduard Konrad Bischoff (Germany 1885)
The Hammer, by Alfred J. Church and Richmond Seeley (1890)
Alilot Gibbor ha-Yehudim Yehudah ha-Makkabi le-Veit ha-Hashmona'im, by Jacob Benjamin Katznelson (1922)
Judas Makkabaeus, ein Kleinvolk kaempft um Glaube und Heimat, by Karl Boxler (1943)
My Glorious Brothers, by Howard Fast (1948)
Yehudah ha-Makkabi in A Layter tsu der Zun, by Moses Schulstein (1954)
Yehudah ha-Makkabi in Sippurim le-Mofet, by Jacob Fichmann (1954)

Theatre
Judas Maccabaeus, by William Houghton (1601)
Giuda Maccabeo, ossia la morte di Nicanore, an Italian azione sacra (1839)
Judas Maccabaeus, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1872)

Brief Mention
In Divine Comedy, by Dante
In Love's Labour's Lost, by Shakespeare
In Hanukkah in Santa Monica, by Tom Lehrer
In Jerusalem, by Mirah
In Treatise on Twelve Lights, Recourse to the Sword (Ch. 5), by Robert Struble (2007-08)

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The Shrine of the Maccabees in Germany

SOURCE(S): Judas Maccabaeus, Wikipedia. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judas_Maccabeus)

Video of the Music Opera, Judas Maccabaeus

The Music and Ikons of Judas Maccabaeus, by Handel






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The Maccabee International

The Many Maccabees

Makkabeeën - مكابيين - Maqqaba - Macabeus - 加比 - Knjiga o Makabejcima - Makabejská - 馬加比 - Makkabæerbog - Maccabees - Makkabilaiskirja - Maccabées - Macabeu - Makkabäer - Μακκαβαίοι - Makkabeusok - Makabe - המכבים - Maccabei - Knyga Machabejska - Kedua Makabe - マカバイ - Macabei - Макабејаца - Makkabeerbok - Makabejská - خانواده میهن پرستان مکابی یهود - Macabeu - Macabeos - Маккавей - מאַקקאַבעעס - 加比家族 - Makkabeeën - 馬加比家族 - όακκαβαίοι - مكابيان - Makkabeusok - マカバイ戦争 - oakkavaioi - ספר חשמונאים - Maccabei - Makkavei - خانواده ميهن پرستان مكابي - Accabeesmay - Makkabeuso - Маккавеи - يهود - Magaccagabagees - Mopaccopabopees - Makabeoj - מַכַּבִּי - Makkabeusok - مكابيان - Macabeos - マカベア家の一族 - Mathagaccathagabathagees //./\((/\|3&&5- マカベア書 - Mubaccubabubees

Maccabee Israel (167 BC)

Makkabeeën - مكابيين - Maqqaba - Macabeus - 加比 - Knjiga o Makabejcima - Makabejská - 馬加比 - Makkabæerbog - Maccabees - Makkabilaiskirja - Maccabées - Macabeu - Makkabäer - Μακκαβαίοι - Makkabeusok - Makabe - המכבים - Maccabei - Knyga Machabejska - Kedua Makabe - マカバイ - Macabei - Макабејаца - Makkabeerbok - Makabejská - خانواده میهن پرستان مکابی یهود - Macabeu - Macabeos - Маккавей - מאַקקאַבעעס - 加比家族 - Makkabeeën - 馬加比家族 - όακκαβαίοι - مكابيان - Makkabeusok - マカバイ戦争 - oakkavaioi - ספר חשמונאים - Maccabei - Makkavei - خانواده ميهن پرستان مكابي - Accabeesmay - Makkabeuso - Маккавеи - يهود - Magaccagabagees - Mopaccopabopees - Makabeoj - מַכַּבִּי - Makkabeusok - مكابيان - Macabeos - マカベア家の一族 - Mathagaccathagabathagees //./\((/\|3&&5- マカベア書 - Mubaccubabubees


Maccabees in Different Languages

Makkabeeën: Afrikaans
ARABIC
مكابيين: Arabic
Maqqaba
Macabeus: Catalan
加比: Chinese Simplified
馬加比: Chinese Traditional
Knjiga o Makabejcima: Croatian
Makabejská: Czech
Makkabæerbog: Danish
Maccabees: English
Makkabilaiskirja: Finnish
Maccabées: French
Macabeu: Galician
Makkabäer: German
Μακκαβαίοι: Greek
המכבים: Hebrew
Makkabeusok: Hungarian
Makabe: Indonesian
Maccabei: Italian
JAPANESE
マカバイ: Japanese
Knyga Machabejska: Lithuanian
Kedua Makabe: Malay
Makkabeerbok: Norwegian
خانواده میهن پرستان مکابی یهود: Persian
Macabeu: Portuguese
Macabei: Romanian
Макабејаца: Serbian
Makabejská: Slovak
Macabeos: Spanish
Маккавей: Ukrainian
מאַקקאַבעעס: Yiddish

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Language Translations

加比家族: Chinese Simplified
馬加比家族: Chinese Traditional
خانواده ميهن پرستان مكابي يهود: Dari(1)
مكابيان: Dari(2)
Makkabeeën: Dutch
όακκαβαίοι: In Gree
oakkavaioi: Greek
מַכַּבִּי: Hebrew(1)
ספר חשמונאים: Hebrew(2)
Makkabeusok: Hungarian
Maccabei: Italian
מַכַּבִּי: Ivrit
マカバイ戦争: In Japanese(1)
マカベア書: In Japanese(2)
マカベア家の一族: Japanese(3)
Makkabeusok: Magyar
مكابيان: Persian Farsi
Маккавеи: Russian
Makkavei: Russki
Macabeos: Spanish

Constructed Language Translations

Mathagaccathagabathagees: Athag
Magaccagabagees: Double Dutch
Makabeoj: Esperanto
//./\((/\|3&&5: Leet
Mopaccopabopees: Oppish
Accabeesmay: Pig Latin
Makkabeuso: Terran B
Mubaccubabubees: Ubbi Dubbi



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