The Great Macabean Revolt

Priests had always been important in ancient israel. They taught about what it meant to be god's holy people, and they conducted all the temple ceremonies. But now, in the two hundreds b c, they were in charge of religion and politics in jerusalem. Their vision of israel was not so much about a messianic kingdom ruled by a descendant of david. They just wanted a stable, temple focused society. Soon found themselves at war with the northern greek kingdom, the selucid kingdom. The revolt itself started in one 67 b c, but there was obviously a big lead up to it. Revolts don't just happen overnight.

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