By the early second century BC, Israel had long been under the rule of
the Hellenistic Seleucid Empire. But the policy of deliberate
Hellenization and suppression of Jewish religious practices by
Antiochus IV, sparked a revolt in 167 BC which was led initially by
Judah Maccabee and later by his brothers and their descendants.
Relying on guerrilla tactics the growing insurrection repeatedly took
on the sophisticated might of the Seleucid army with mixed, but
generally successful, results, establishing the Maccabees as the
Hasmonean Dynasty of rulers over a once-more independent Israel. (It
is Judah Maccabee's ritual cleansing of the Temple after his victories
over the Seleucids that is celebrated by Jews every year at Hannukah).
Internal disputes weakened the revived state, however, and it
eventually fell victim to the Romans who replaced the Seleucids as the
local superpower. John D Grainger explains the causes of the revolt
and traces the course of the various campaigns of the Maccabees, first
against the Seleucids and then the Romans who captured Jerusalem in
63BC and partitioned the kingdom. The last chapters consider the
continued Jewish resistance to Roman rule and factional fighting,
until the crowning of Herod, marked the end of the Hasmonean dynasty.
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ISBN
9781781599464
Publisert
2020
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Pen & Sword Military (ORIM)
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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