The Hammer: A Marvel Hero

The Seleucid kingdom was one of the successor kingdoms after Alexander the Great, so negligently failed to have an adult successor. The Hebrews had lived under Ptolemaic Egypt at first and for while we can gather, they lived there fairly happily. But then a rural priest called Mattathius gets the **** if I may use that word. And he starts an insurgency against the Seleucids. He massacres many Hellenists and Hebrew that he deems are loyal to the Hellenists. It makes sense because it was a very violent world.