The conflict between iudaismos and hellenismos lay behind the Maccabean revolt and hence the invention of the term iudaismos. |
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This corresponded with the Maccabean Revolt directed against the Seleucids. |
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He knew that there had been no Hasmonean rescue, no Maccabean liberation, and he wept. |
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Even the Judeans at the time of the Maccabean revolt could not be immune. |
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This echoes the growing interest in the afterlife in Maccabean times. |
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