With Shmuel Zanvil Kahana heading the Ministry of Religious Affairs, dozens of holy sites were established in Israel. A...
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A quick glance at the Hasmonean kingdom and dynasty, 167BCE to 28BCE
Guerilla leader turned charismatic statesman, Jonathan the Hasmonean exchanged his daring tactics for shrewd diplomacy to take the Hasmonean...
The war Mattathias and his sons fought against Hellenism was perhaps even more formidable than their armed conflict against...
The giant Akra fortress and its garrison of Hellenist soldiers sowed fear among Jerusalem’s Jewish residents well after Hasmonean...
Did the later Hasmoneans really become Hellenized, as many have theorized? Or were they like their palaces – Hellenist...
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