The Holy Land fell in the part alotted to Seleucus and his heirs. Generations later, Antiochus IV Epiphanes rules the Seleucid Empire 175-164 BC. To consolidate his power, he institutes a program ...

then the Seleucid Greeks and the abominations of Antiochus Epiphanes. After a brief interlude of independence under the Maccabees, Israel was conquered and ruled by the Romans; then by the Byzantine ...