The family of Mattathias became known as the Maccabees, from the Hebrew word for “hammer,” because they were said to strike hammer blows against their enemies. The name Hasmoneans refers to the ...
https://doi.org/10.15650/hebruniocollannu.88.2017.0001 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.15650/hebruniocollannu.88.2017.0001 Copy URL The famous depiction of ...
It is common today for Christians of all stripes to say that the period in the Bible that most closely parallels our own time is that of Sodom and Gomorrah. The late convert to Catholicism Judge ...
Celebrating the Maccabees: happy 2,179th anniversary of the world's first war of national liberation
You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. This is the 2,179th anniversary of the world’s first war of national liberation. There have been many since.
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