Such radical Hellenization inevitably brought on the Maccabean revolt, giving birth to the Hasmonean dynasty of Jewish kings and high priests (142-37 B.C.). What began as an anti-Hellenistic ...

The story begins about mid-way through the second century BCE. The Maccabean Revolt (168-164 BCE) had recently ended in a miraculous victory for traditional Jewish religious values. But once in ...

Many believe that chocolate gelt relates to the Maccabean Revolt in 167 to 160 BCE. During the revolt, the Jewish people rose up against the Seleucid Empire, which controlled Judea during the time.

This course included discussions on the Hasmonean kingdom, Antiochus’s decrees, and the Maccabean revolt. He completed it with a grade of 94. Sinwar displayed a keen interest in the formative ...

Matisyahu was a Jewish freedom-fighter during the Maccabean revolt. “I have received tens of thousands of words of sympathy and support,” Azman said in a social media post on Friday announcing ...

Etched in Greek on a limestone slab, the stele testifies to the period leading up to the Maccabean Revolt, an event memorialized every year by Jews during Hanukkah. The stele was completely ...

Matisyahu was a Jewish freedom-fighter during the Maccabean revolt. “I have received tens of thousands of words of sympathy and support,” Azman said in a social media post on Friday announcing ...

mythologies and artistic canons and also provoked nativist responses such as the Maccabean revolt. Main topics include Greeks and "barbarians," Alexander and his legacies, Hellenism as ideal and ...

The names of the Holy Maccabees are Abim, Anthony, Guria, Eleazar, Eusebona, Achim, and Marcellus. They were Jews by race and exact keepers of the Laws of the Fathers. They lived during the reign of ...

The son of Moshe Azman, the leader of Kyiv’s Brodsky synagogue and one of several self-declared Ukrainian “chief rabbis,” has died in battle against the Russians, Azman announced Wednesday.

The festival celebrates the rededication of the Temple in Jerusalem, after Syrian-Greek soldiers seized and defiled the Jewish holy place in BC168 at the time of the Maccabean Revolt. The Jews ...