Known as the Maccabees, their establishment of the independent ... Angry protests erupted in Jerusalem, and Herod was called before the religious authorities to answer for his actions.

Over the next few decades the Maccabees’ successors Shimon the Kohen Gadol and after him his son Yochanan Hyrcanus I drove the Seleucids out of the central region around Jerusalem, then expanded ...

Other torches, kindled at Modi’in, gravesite of the Maccabees, were flown from Lydda ... when Bar-Kochba and his warriors were defending Jerusalem against the legions of Rome, coincided with ...

1 Maccabees is one of the deuterocanonical books ... In the space of three years, the Jews recapture Jerusalem and purify the Temple (4:36). This purification and rededication of the Temple ...

The Hellenists invited the Greek emperor to invade. What’s more, the Maccabees’ capture of Jerusalem (164 BCE) was not a final victory assuring peace and religious freedom. It was followed by ...

The Maccabees, an army of Jewish rebels, conquered the Syrian-Greeks who defiled the holy temple in Jerusalem. The Maccabees then reclaimed the temple. "Hanukkah is a Jewish festival of lighting ...

When the Maccabees prevailed over the Syrian Greeks ... that took place during the rededication of the Second Temple in Jerusalem. The oil burned for eight days while the Jewish people were ...