Mattathias slays a Syrian official and escapes into the Judean hills with his five sons, beginning the Maccabean Revolt, a Jewish rebellion against Seleucid control of Judea. Private documents collected by the Romans when they capture Perseus of Macedon incriminate political leaders of the Achaean League.

The Maccabean Revolt (Hebrew: מרד החשמונאים) was a Jewish rebellion led by the Maccabees against the Seleucid Empire and against Hellenistic influence on Jewish life.

2014年7月30日 · In 167 BCE the Seleucid king Antiochus IV Epiphanes (reign from 175–164 BCE) ordered the religious persecution of the Jews living in the satrapy of Coele Syria and Phoenicia. The Seleucid ruler banned the Jewish cult in an attempt to force the Jews (and the Samaritans) to forsake their belief in the God of Israel.

In 167 BC, a Jewish priest named Mattathias the Hasmonean refused to worship a Greek God and murdered a Hellenistic Jew who took his place when sacrificing an idol. Along with his five sons, he fled to the wilderness but died soon after.

Year 167 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Paetus and Pennus (or, less frequently, year 587 Ab urbe condita).

Many Jews fled Jerusalem and found freedom from Hellenism in the surrounding deserts, villages and countryside towns. In 167BC, Antiochus issued a decree imposing a death sentence on those who observed the Sabbath or circumcised their children.

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The Judeans, a Jewish tribe led by the Maccabees perfected the use of guerilla tactics while they were under the Seleucid influence between 167BC - 160BC. This resistance is now known as The Maccabean Revolt, an uprising that started as a check on the Hellenisation of the Jewish culture by the Seleucid Ruler Antiochus IV who launched a campaign ...

Year 167 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Paetus and Pennus (or, less frequently, year 587 Ab urbe condita ).

2022年1月4日 · The Maccabean Revolt was a Jewish rebellion against their Greek/Syrian oppressors in Israel, c. 167—160 BC, as well as a rejection of Hellenistic compromises in worship. The history of the Maccabean Revolt is found in 1 and 2 Maccabees and in the writings of Josephus. The origin of Hanukkah is traced back to the Maccabean Revolt.