Mattathias soon dies, but appoints his son, Judas Maccabeus, to take command of the military forces they have gathered (2:66). Judas leads the Jewish people in a series of astounding victories ...
Joshua and Judas Maccabeus. The three others are Queen Elizabeth I, Christ and St Peter. The concept of the Worthies has a wider European context - they were a literary and artistic subject in ...