The Scroll of Antiochus was written to describe what caused the creation of the holiday of Hannukah and to praise its history as significant and sacred. It does so by writing the tale using ...

Antiochus Epiphanes. The story is recounted in the first book of Maccabees. The Books of Maccabees (there are several) were originally part of the Jewish Bible and translated into Greek perhaps in ...

As we connect more deeply with the Maccabees’ victory over the Greek-Syrian Emperor Antiochus Epiphanes, we try to understand how that historical moment relates to today’s. Antiochus is gone ...

Hanukkah commemorates the rededication of the ancient Jewish Temple in Jerusalem after a small Jewish army called the Maccabees reclaimed it from the Greek leader Antiochus IV Epiphanes in 164 BC.

In 167 B.C. the Judeans, led by a priest named Mattathias and his sons, rebelled against their Seleucid Greek overlord, Antiochus IV Epiphanes. Antiochus’ idea of reform, the historian Diodorus ...