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This is the history of the region of Judea after the conquests of Alexander the Great. It outlines the events of the uprising of the Jews against the Greeks led by five men of the Maccabee family from 170 to 130 BC. Antiochus despoils the Temple, religious persecution of the Jews.  Mattathias and Judas MaccabeusContinue reading “#18: 1 Maccabees”