Maccabean Revolt against the Seleucid Empire, there were a series of campaigns in 163 BC in regions outlying Judea - Ammon, Gilead, Galilee, Idumea, and...

Maccabeus argues for full political as well as religious freedom. Maccabee campaigns of 163 BC: The Maccabees attack nearby regions to Judea, fighting in a...

Maccabeus argues for full political as well as religious freedom. Maccabee campaigns of 163 BC: The Maccabees attack nearby regions to Judea, fighting in a...

Gilead. He fought during the Maccabee campaigns of 163 BC against the local Jews, and eventually the Maccabee rebel army themselves. He was eventually...

Maccabeus during the Maccabee campaigns of 163 BC. The site of Jazer was defined by Eusebius and Jerome as being 8 or 10 Roman miles west of Philadelphia, and...

feared, with a group of Jewish fighters led by Judas Maccabeus (Judah Maccabee) and his family rebelling in 167 BCE and seeking independence. The rebels...

expanded the boundaries of Judea by conquest, and reduced the influence of Hellenism and Hellenistic Judaism. The name Maccabee is often used as a synonym...

MAK-ə-BEE-əs), also known as Judah Maccabee (Hebrew: יהודה המכבי, romanized: Yehudah HaMakabi), was a Jewish priest (kohen) and a son of the priest Mattathias. He...

the name of a fortress in Gilead to which the local Jews fled when hard pressed by Timothy of Ammon during the Maccabee campaigns of 163 BC in the Maccabean...

This is a list of conflicts in the southern Levant arranged chronologically from ancient to modern times. This region has also been referred to historically...

Jewish rebels under the leadership of Judas Maccabeus (Judah Maccabee) against an army of the Seleucid Empire, the Greek successor state (diadochi) to...

led by Judas Maccabeus (Judah Maccabee) and an army of the Seleucid Empire under the command of Seron, a commander of the Syrian army. Beth-Horon, or...

The Book of Daniel is a 2nd century BC biblical apocalypse with a 6th century BC setting. Ostensibly "an account of the activities and visions of Daniel...

be given as the reason for the selection of the same date for the rededication of the altar by Judah Maccabee. The above account in 1 Maccabees, as well...

nobles and commits suicide. The Maccabees campaign in outlying regions against Timothy of Ammon and others. (~163 BC) Chapter 11: Lysias leads a military expedition...

the origin of the festival of Hanukkah. 163 BCE Maccabee campaigns of 163 BCE: The Maccabees send forces into the regions adjoining Judea. 163–162 BCE High...

Nine years later, 1 August became the feast of Saint Alphonsus Maria de' Liguori and the mention of the Maccabee martyrs was omitted from the General Roman...

departure of Bacchides from Israel, the City of Acre felt sufficiently threatened by Maccabee incursions to contact Demetrius and request the return of Bacchides...

conditions quickly deteriorated during the military campaigns of Judas' brother, Jonathan Maccabee, who waged war against the Seleucid general Typhon at...

small band of faithful but poorly armed Jews, led by Judah the Maccabee, defeated one of the mightiest armies on earth, drove the Greeks from the land...