Coin with Bust of Antiochus IV Epiphanes
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Antiochus IV Enters Jerusalem
Jewish Antiquities 12.237–256
About this time, upon the death of Onias the high priest, Antiochus gave the high priesthood to Jesus his brother, for the son of Onias…
Rival High Priests Leave Jerusalem Vulnerable
2 Maccabees 5:11–6:16
When news of what had happened [i.e., infighting between Jason and Menelaus] reached the king, he took it to mean that Judaea was…
Mattathias’s Uprising according to 1 Maccabees
1 Maccabees 2:1–4:35
In those days Mattathias son of John son of Simeon, a priest of the family of Joarib, moved from Jerusalem and settled in Modiin. He had five sons, John surnamed…
Mattathias’s Uprising according to Josephus
Jewish Antiquities 12.265–286
Now at this time there was one whose name was Mattathias, who was living in the village of Modiin, in Judaea, the son of John, the son of Simeon, the…
Rededication of the Temple
Jewish Antiquities 12.316–326
The first-century historian Josephus gives an account of the origin of Hanukkah and suggests an etiology for one of its names, the Festival of Lights.
The Death of Judah
1 Maccabees 8–9 (selections)
Now Judah heard of the fame of the Romans, that they were very strong and were well-disposed toward all who made an alliance with them, that they pledged friendship to…