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The coin cache. Photo: Shai Halevi, Antiquities Authority

For the first time: evidence of the Maccabean rebellion against the Greeks was uncovered in the Judean desert

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In an excavation in a cave in the Nahal Darga Reserve, a rare treasure was discovered - a wooden box containing 15 silver coins from the time of King Antiochus IV *It seems that the person who buried the box in the cave fled to it, hoping to collect his property at the end of the rebellion
The menorah and other details looted from the Temple in Jerusalem, as depicted in the Titus Gate in Rome. Photo: shutterstock

Reincarnation of the Temple Menorah until today's Chanukah

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The discus thrower from ancient Greece, as it appears on an item in the Louvre Museum in Paris

The Muscle Song XNUMX - The relationship of Maccabean literature to the Jerusalem gymnasium, or pornography and geography

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discus thrower

The XNUMXth Muscle Song - Did they throw a discus in Jerusalem? or "bursting disc"

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The revolt of the Maccabees as an expression of frustration and political revolution

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It's all politics

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The Hanio temple in Egypt - the fruit of political and personal struggles / Yahyam Sorek

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From Messianism to Hellenism - Reflections for Hanukkah / Dr. Yechiam Sorek

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Judah the Maccabee was a cruel religious zealot and lust for power. His successors were no better than him

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