In midsummer, the Orthodox Churches commemorate the Holy Maccabees who fought and sacrificed their lives to resist the idolatrous and pagan pressure of the Greeks who wanted to impose their pagan ...

It is common today for Christians of all stripes to say that the period in the Bible that most closely parallels our own time is that of Sodom and Gomorrah. The late convert to Catholicism Judge ...

The great British Jewish historian, Cecil Roth (1899-1970), makes a fascinating point about the Maccabean revolt (in the gendered language common in his generation): “It was one of the decisive events ...

Deputy Editor Amanda Borschel-Dan is the host of The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, What Matters Now and Friday Focus podcasts and heads up The Times of Israel's features. The first evidence of a ...

1 Maccabees is one of the deuterocanonical books of the Bible. 2 Macc is not a sequel to 1 Macc. In fact, 2 Macc tells many of the same stories from a slightly different perspective than 1 Macc. 1 ...

https://doi.org/10.15699/jbl.1384.2019.5 https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.15699/jbl.1384.2019.5 First Maccabees 7:34 employs four verbs to describe the offensive ...

This is Swiss-Italian artist Antonio Ciseri’s conception of the martyrdom of the Maccabee brothers in the revolt they led against Greece from 167-160 B.C. Ciseri lived from 1821-91. (Courtesy Photo) ...