Haifa University team finds cache of 160 extremely rare coins - dated to 80/79 BCE, during the reign of Judah Maccabee's grand-nephew - near Alexandrion Fortress, north of Jericho ...

History has regarded Judah Maccabee as one of the most brilliant military strategists of all time; for that reason, there is a statue of him at West Point. Or perhaps there was a larger miracle ...

was rededicated by Judah Maccabee, who led the insurgency begun by his father, the high priest Mattathias. According to the story of Hanukkah, Maccabee and his soldiers wanted to light the temple ...

After reclaiming the temple, Judah Maccabee led his followers to cleanse the Holy Temple and rebuild it. When Maccabee and the other Jewish people took part in the rededication of the temple ...

By 165 BCE this revolt, led by Mattathias’ son Judah Maccabee, was successful. Judah ordered the Temple cleansed of Hellenistic statuary and restored service so Jews could freely worship there ...

This led to a revolt led by the Jewish priest Mattathias and his five sons, known as the Maccabees. The Seleucid Empire, one of the successor states of Alexander the Great’s empire, was vast and ...

After reclaiming the temple, Judah Maccabee led his followers to cleanse the Holy Temple and rebuild it. When Maccabee and the other Jewish people took part in the rededication of the temple ...