Antiochus was a cultural imperialist, which is bad enough. The IDF’s enemies are genocidal, which is even worse. In addition, the Maccabees’ campaign against the Seleucid Empire was regional.

I Maccabees. Author: Unknown. Date Written: c.100 BC. Date of Narrative: 323-104 BC . ... Generations later, Antiochus IV Epiphanes rules the Seleucid Empire 175-164 BC.

Another was a rebellion led by the Maccabees, ... “Antiochus Epiphanes, a Seleucid who ruled from 175-164 B.C., captured Jerusalem in 167 B.C. and promptly desecrated the Temple by removing ...

The second and fourth Books of the Maccabees describe how, during Antiochus’ repressions, an old man named Eleazar, and a Judean mother and her seven sons, chose death by elaborate torture over ...

Finally, around 164 B.C., the Maccabees, as they were called, defeated King Antiochus and his troops. When the Maccabees returned to their ransacked temple, they found only one jar of oil—just ...

Hanukkah commemorates the victory of Jewish revolutionaries, the Maccabees, over the tyrant Antiochus, who outlawed Judaism in 167 B.C.

Geoffrey explores the story of the Maccabees and the history of Hanukkah. ... In the present day, city of Jerusalem, King Antiochus Epiphanes led a campaign to ban Jewish practice.

(RNS) — Hanukkah, which began Sunday, commemorates the heroic resistance of a group of Jewish rebels called the Maccabees to the Syrian Greek Emperor Antiochus IV in 167 B.C.E.

The festival of Chanukah commemorates the Maccabees’ victory over the Syrian tyrant Antiochus IV, who had conquered Jerusalem and seized the Temple in his efforts to Hellenize Judea. Resisting ...

King Antiochus IV Epiphanes ruled the Seleucid Empire from 175 to 164 B.C. ... Judah won back Jerusalem and restored the Temple, cleansing and rededicating it. The revolt of the Maccabees, ...