A prophecy about Alexander the Great is found in the Jewish Book of Daniel, which was written 200 years before his birth.

The 12.15-meter-long and approximately 1.75-m -wide column is thought to have been quarried in order to decorate the Second ...

The eight-night feast of Hanukkah started on Christmas day—a special occurrence last witnessed in 2005. Jews across town ...

Here is some background information about the Jewish holiday Hanukkah. In 2025, Hanukkah will start on December 14 at sunset and will end December 22, at sunset. In 2024, Hanukkah will start on ...

Re-dedication was necessary because Seleucid king of Syria, Antiochus IV Epiphanes, had defiled the Temple by having an altar to Zeus placed there. When the Maccabees began preparing the Temple ...

Antiochus IV Epiphanes, styled as ‘God Manifest’, began a ruthless campaign of persecution to wipe out Judaism in Israel. He ordered the Torah defiled with the blood of pigs and commanded ...

In historical terms, the Maccabean Revolt was the beginning of the end of the Seleucid Empire. Moral: Don't mess with the ...

Hanukkah is called the Festival of Dedication as well as the Festival of Lights. What dedication? In 167 B.C.E., the Syrian-Greek King Antiochus Epiphanes (which means “glorious”; he wasn’t for us) ...

History of Hanukkah The background to Hanukkah lies in the second century BC when a Greek army led by King Antiochus IV Epiphanes (who ruled 175 to 164 BC) marched into Jerusalem (2 Maccabees 5:11–14) ...

A team of archaeologists from the University of Haifa discovered a rare hoard of approximately 160 coins during an excavation ...

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 ...

In 168 B.C.E., Antiochus IV Epiphanes, king of the Seleucid Empire, sent his army to conquer Jerusalem. He outlawed Jewish ...