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Issue 8 | December 2011
Issue 8 | December 2011
A wondrous horse prevents
Heliodorus, the Seleucid envoy, from
emptying the Temple treasury. Detail
from the fresco by Raphael
Articles
Yaakov Medan
The war Mattathias and his sons fought against Hellenism was perhaps even more formidable than their armed conflict against the Greeks. The religious reforms the Maccabees enacted testify to their determination to prevent the cultural assim
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