A rare intact Hellenistic estate at Khirbet el-Eika in Eastern Galilee was likely abandoned by its inhabitant as Yonatan ...

When Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th US President, he did not put his left hand on either of the two Bibles held by his ...

Judas leads the Jewish people in a series of ... though the dynasty was tarnished by ambition and human weakness. The Maccabees' incredible accomplishments set the stage for the messianic ...

Praying for the dead is quite biblical. In the Book of Maccabees found in the Catholic and Orthodox Old Testament, Judas Maccabees took a collection for a sin offering for his men who died in ...

By 1600 b.c., less than one in 20 bones found at sites in the Levant typically come from pigs, and most of those appear to be ...

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Our 46 Heads of State all had interactions with the Jewish community – positive and negative, historic and bizarre ...

As villains go Antiochus IV Epiphanes is a great villain whose lack of cultural awareness was abominable. Judah Maccabees narrative certainly gives us a warrior for truth and justice. Yet it is ...

The Jewish Feast of the Dedication, instituted by Judas Maccabaeus, his brothers ... Jerusalem to replace the altar which had been polluted by Antiochus Epiphanes (1 Maccabees i. 58, iv. 59). The ...

When as a boy I eagerly devoured the records of the glorious deeds of the Jewish military captains, such as Joshua, Joab, Gideon, Judas Maccabee, I never dreamed that I in a small way would become a ...