The Maccabees regained control over the land from the Syrian Greeks and this was called the Hasmonean Kingdom. The Hasmoneans were overrun by the Roman armies nearly a century later.
139 BC
It is rebel,social religious,inner and outer enemies that causes it.
Antiochus IV Epiphanes
It was Matityahu from the city of Modi'in, father of Yehuda the Macabi and his brothers.
Judah lead a revolt in Judea which was nicknamed the maccabean war which translates into the hammer so he was called that.
it did not fail
At the instigation of Hellenising Jews, the Syrian-Greeks outlawed several of the Torah-commands and imposed idolatrous sacrifices.
You've combined two different periods. The Maccabees led a revolution against the Syrian-Greeks.
The majority of the persecution of the Jews by Antiochus Epiphanes took place in the area around Jerusalem. This persecution led directly to the Maccabean Revolt.
The Maccabees were the people who fought in the war against the Greeks in the Chanukkah story.
Judas Maccabee is famous for leading the Maccabean revolt against the Seleucid Empire from 167 to 160 BCE. Judas Maccabee is renowned as one of the greatest warriors in Jewish history.
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