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The Maccabees took Jerusalem and were now able to extend their authority while the main Seleucid army was distracted; only local garrisons and hostile local militias were left to stop them during the next year of 163 BC. In this time period, only Judea truly had a strong majority of Jews; many outlying regions, while having substantial Jewish ...
[19] [17] Judas's nickname "Maccabee", now used to describe the Jewish partisans as a whole, is probably taken from the word "hammer" (Aramaic: maqqaba; Hebrew: makebet); the term "Maccabee" or "Maccabeus" would later be used as an honorific for Judas's brothers as well. [20] Judas's campaign in the countryside became a full-scale revolt.
Dathema or Diathema was the name of a fortress in Gilead to which the local Jews fled when hard pressed by Timothy of Ammon during the Maccabee campaigns of 163 BC in the Maccabean Revolt. There they shut themselves in, prepared for a siege, and sent to Judas Maccabeus (Judah Maccabee) for aid. [1]
Lady Maccabees meeting in the Ironville Neighborhood House, Toledo, Ohio, approximately 1909 Ladies of the Maccabees Building. The Ladies of the Maccabees (acronym, LOTM; 1886-1926), the female auxiliary of the Knights of the Maccabees, was an insurance benefit society. It was the first fraternal benefit society operated exclusively by women. [1]
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Judas Maccabaeus or Maccabeus (/ ˌ m æ k ə ˈ b iː ə s / MAK-ə-BEE-əs), also known as Judah Maccabee (Hebrew: יהודה המכבי, romanized: Yehudah HaMakabi), [a] was a Jewish priest and a son of the priest Mattathias.
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