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During 163 BC, the main Seleucid armies composed of Greeks were elsewhere, so the Maccabees were free to expand their influence against their neighbors. The Maccabees did not in general hold the territory they fought in during this period, but rather engaged in raids on opposing power centers and retributive attacks on anti-Jewish populations.
[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.
163 BCE 163 BCE Maccabee campaigns of 163 BC. Part of the Maccabean Revolt. Maccabees: Seleucid Empire: 163 BCE 163 BCE Battle of Dathema. Part of the Maccabean Revolt. Maccabees: Seleucid Empire: 162 BCE 162 BCE Battle of Beth Zechariah. Part of the Maccabean Revolt. Maccabees: Seleucid Empire: 161 BCE 161 BCE Battle of Adasa. Part of the ...
The Maccabees campaign in outlying regions against Timothy of Ammon and others. (~163 BC) Chapter 11: Lysias leads a military expedition to Judea. Judas defeats him at the Battle of Beth Zur. Four documents detailing negotiations with Lysias and the Roman Republic. (~160s BC)
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]
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Year 163 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. ... Maccabee campaigns of 163 BC: The Maccabees attack nearby regions to Judea, ...
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