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Seleucid Empire.
Mattathias's story is
related in the
deuterocanonical book of 1
Maccabees and in the
writings of Josephus.
Mattathias is
accorded a central...
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Mattathias ben
Theophilus (Hebrew: מתתיהו בן תאופילוס; died c. 66 CE) was the
Jewish High
Priest (Kohen Gadol) at the
start of the
Jewish Revolution, and...
- from Modi'in,
Mattathias the Hasmonean,
sparked the
revolt against the
Seleucid Empire by
refusing to
worship the Gr**** gods.
Mattathias killed a ****enistic...
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Judah was the
third son of
Mattathias, the Hasmonean, a
Jewish priest from the
village of Modi'in. In 167 BCE,
Mattathias,
together with his sons Judah...
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Antigonus II
Mattathias (Ancient Gr****: Ἀντίγονος Antígonos; Hebrew: מַתִּתְיָהוּ, Mattīṯyāhū), also
known as
Antigonus the
Hasmonean (died 37 BCE) was...
-
worship the Gr**** gods at Modein's new altar.
Mattathias killed a Jew who had
stepped forward to take
Mattathias'
place in
sacrificing to an idol as well as...
-
eventual independence.
Matityahu the Priest, also
referred to as
Mattathias and
Mattathias ben Johanan.
Matityahu was a
Jewish priest who,
together with...
- שִׁמְעוֹן הַתַּסִּי Šīməʿōn haT****ī; died 135 BC) was the
second son of
Mattathias and thus a
member of the
Hasmonean family. The name "Th****i" has a connotation...
-
renderings include Matthew, Matthias, and
Mattathias.
Mattithyahu is a variation.
Mattityahu may
refer to:
Mattathias (died 165 BCE),
Jewish priest also known...
- of the sons of
Mattathias and the
leader of the
Hasmonean dynasty of
Judea from 161 to 143 BCE. H J Wolf
notes that all of
Mattathias' sons
listed in...
