The Macabean Revolution

The story is very complicated, but it basically goes like this. The selucid greek kingdom up in the north starts flexing its muscles. A decade or so after ben syra, they even try to take on the new rising power over in the west,. We'll hear more about the romans when we get to the first century b c. And those dynamics, combined with some international intrigue, led to the revolt i mentioned earlier, the famous macabean revolution.

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