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The Battle of Adasa was fought during the Maccabean revolt on the 13th of the month Adar (late winter, equivalent to March), 161 BC at Adasa (Hebrew: חדשה), near Beth-horon. It was a battle between the rebel Maccabees of Judas Maccabeus (Judah Maccabee) and the Seleucid Empire , whose army was led by Nicanor .
The book relates the story of a Jewish woman in Persia, born as Hadassah but known as Esther, who becomes queen of Persia and thwarts a genocide of her people. The story takes place during the reign of King Ahasuerus in the First Persian Empire. Queen Vashti, the wife of King Ahasuerus, is banished from the court for disobeying the king's ...
The date of the book is not known, but in The Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East, Prof. Charles Horne does not provide a definitive date for the tale. [7] Most modern scholars simply state that the text's terminus ad quem was the 10th or 11th century.
The Fast of Esther (Ta'anit Ester, Hebrew: תַּעֲנִית אֶסְתֵּר) is a fast on Purim eve commemorating two communal fasts undertaken by the Persian Jewish community of Shushan in the Book of Esther, for the purpose of praying for salvation from annihilation by an evil decree which had been instigated by Haman, the king's royal vizier, an anti-jewish enemy from the Amalekite nation.
13 Adar (March) 161 BCE. Battle of Adasa: Judas's army defeats Nicanor's army; Nicanor is killed. [74] Spring 161 BCE. The Maccabees and the Roman Republic hold negotiations and form a tentative pact of mutual aid. [74] Early 160 BCE. Demetrius defeats Timarchus's revolt in the eastern half of the Seleucid Empire. [74] Nisan (April) 160 BCE
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Judith, the story's heroine, also bears the feminine form of the name "Judas". [86] The Testament of Moses, similar to the Book of Daniel, provides a witness to Jewish attitudes leading up to the revolt: it describes persecution, denounces impious leaders and priests as collaborators, praises the virtues of martyrdom, and predicts God's ...
Mohammad Al Yazji lost his mother in an Israeli airstrike, and the fate of his father is still unknown. As the eldest, the 13-year-old is left alone to care for his seven siblings in Gaza – the ...