When White declares “We’re The Maccabees” after an opening one-two-three of giddy debut album cuts Latchmere, Lego and X-Ray, his most simple of statements is greeted like a revelation.

When The Maccabees called time back in 2017, it felt like a band pulling the exit cord just as they’d finally reached the top of the summit. After a decade of graft and steady ascent, the South London ...

In the Temple, Antiochus sets up an idol of Zeus, the "abomination of desolation" (1:54). Mattathias, a zealous Jewish priest, refuses to partake of the pagan sacrifice which is being forced on him.

“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 altar, replacing it with a Greek altar to Zeus and ...

It’s another March Madness run for the Yeshiva University Maccabees, which clinched the Skyline Conference championship on Sunday night to head to the national men’s basketball tournament.

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.

The Jews, led by Judah the Maccabee, rebelled against King Antiochus and eventually defeated him and his troops. But when the Maccabees returned to their ransacked temple, they found only one jar ...

The Scroll’s story differs significantly from the versions in the Book of Maccabees, the Talmud, and history. Despite Saadiah Gaon, the Jews of Italy and Yemen, and others’ claims, it is fiction.

Maccabees' success was due to "leap of faith" The Maccabees’ miraculous triumph over the Greeks was not a result of military prowess but a result of judgment that involved strategic planning and ...