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A rural Jewish priest from Modein, Mattathias (Hebrew: Matityahu) of the Hasmonean family, sparked the revolt against the Seleucid Empire by refusing to worship the Greek gods at Modein's new altar. Mattathias killed a Jew who had stepped forward to take Mattathias' place in sacrificing to an idol as well as the Greek officer who was sent to ...
Hellenistic Judaism was a form of Judaism in classical antiquity that combined Jewish religious tradition with elements of Hellenistic culture and religion. Until the early Muslim conquests of the eastern Mediterranean, the main centers of Hellenistic Judaism were Alexandria in Egypt and Antioch in Syria (modern-day Turkey), the two main Greek urban settlements of the Middle East and North ...
Articles concerning Jewish Greek history during classical antiquity (8th century BC -6th century AD). Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ancient Jewish Greek history . See also: Timeline of Jewish history and History of Greece
The Jewish faction based in Jerusalem forms a Judean provisional government combining both moderates and pro-war parties. [172] November 66–May 67. Jewish rebels attempt to take Ascalon, but are defeated by Roman cavalry in the field. [173] 67. Galilee campaign: Roman legions under General Vespasian and Titus subdue Galilee and the northern ...
Hai Gaon of Pumbedita Academy began a new phase in Jewish scholarship and investigation (hakirah); Hai Gaon augments Talmudic scholarship with non-Jewish studies. Hai Gaon was a savant with an exact knowledge of the theological movements of his time, so much so that Moses ibn Ezra called him a mutakallim .
Mattathias appealing to Jewish refugees (illustration by Gustave Doré from the 1866 La Sainte Bible). In all extant accounts from the Second Temple Period, Mattathias was a resident of the rural village of Modi'in, though it is not clear if he was a native. [2]
Judas Maccabaeus: The Jewish Struggle Against the Seleucids. Cambridge University Press. p. 219–274. ISBN 0521323525. Harrington, Daniel J. (2009) [1988]. The Maccabean Revolt: Anatomy of a Biblical Revolution. Eugene, Oregon: Wipf and Stock. ISBN 978-1-60899-113-6. Weir, William (2004).
Articles relating to Hellenistic Judaism, a form of Judaism in classical antiquity that combined Jewish religious tradition with elements of Greek culture.Until the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the early Muslim conquests of the eastern Mediterranean, the main centers of Hellenistic Judaism were Alexandria in Egypt and Antioch in Syria (now in southern Turkey), the two main Greek urban ...