Maccabees
The Maccabees, also spelled Machabees (Hebrew: מכבים or מקבים, Maqabim; Latin: Machabi or Machado; Greek: Μακκαβαῖοι, Makkabaioi), were the leaders of a Jewish rebel army that took control of Judea, which at the time had been a province of the Seleucid Empire. They founded the Hasmonean dynasty, which ruled from 164 BCE to 63 BCE. They reasserted the Jewish religion, partly by forced conversion, expanded the boundaries of Judea by conquest and reduced the influence of Hellenism and Hellenistic Judaism.
Background
In the 2nd century BCE, Judea lay between the Ptolemaic Kingdom (based in Egypt) and the Seleucid empire (based in Syria), monarchies which had formed following the death of Alexander the Great (356–323 BCE). Judea had come under Ptolemaic rule, but fell to the Seleucids around 200 BCE. Judea at that time had been affected by the Hellenization begun by Alexander. Some Jews, mainly those of the urban upper class, notably the Tobiad family, wished to dispense with Jewish law and to adopt a Greek lifestyle. According to the historian Victor Tcherikover, the main motive for the Tobiads' Hellenism was economic and political. The Hellenizing Jews built a gymnasium in Jerusalem, competed in international Greek games, "removed their marks of circumcision and repudiated the holy covenant".
Maccabees (disambiguation)
Maccabees were Jewish rebels against Hellenization in the 2nd Century BC.
Maccabees may also refer to:
See also
Books of the Maccabees
The Books of the Maccabees are books concerned with the Maccabees, the leaders of the Jewish rebellion against the Seleucid dynasty, or related subjects.
The term mostly refers to two deuterocanonical books contained in some canons of the Bible:
The term also commonly refers to two further works:
The term may also refer to:
Podcasts:
Maccabees
ALBUMS
- Modern Man released: 2006
The Maccabees
ALBUMS
- Given to the Wild released: 2012
- Wall of Arms released: 2009
- Colour It In released: 2007
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Hearts That Strangle
by: MaccabeesIt's not for the faint hearted
Not for the ones who've parted from you
It's not for you
It's not for those who gamble
It's not for hearts that strangle
But you, its' for you
Its all so disconcerting
At times it is just unnerving
But you, you helped me through
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