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This 5 page paper considers a turning point in Jewish history: the establishment of the Hasmonean Rule. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Maccabees revolted against Greek oppression and the Greeks signed a peace treaty in 142 BCE (Spiro, 2009). In 167 BCE the Greeks were persecuting the Jews, and tried to force
them to sacrifice a pig to the Greek gods (Spiro, 2009). Mattathias, a town elder and one of the "priestly class," refuses but a Hellenized Jew agrees to perform the
sacrifice, which is "unspeakable in Jewish eyes" (Spiro, 2009). Just as this person is about to perform the sacrifice, Mattathias kills him as well as the Greek official who is
present; he then says to the crowd: "Follow me, all of you who are for Gods law and stand by the covenant" (Spiro, 2009). This is the start of the
Maccabee rebellion, led by Mattathias and his five sons, "Yohanan, Shimon, Judah, Eleazar, Yonaton," who head into the hills to wage a guerrilla campaign against the Greeks (Spiro, 2009). This
guerrilla force is led primarily by Judah, whose nickname is "Maccabee" which means "The Hammer" (Spiro, 2009). The word is also "an acronym for mi komocho baalim Hashem, "who is
like you among the powers O God," -- the battle cry of the Jewish people" (Spiro, 2009). This was the beginning of a 25-year struggle against the Greeks (Spiro, 2009).
When the Greek signed the treaty Mattathiass son Simon took control, calling himself "nasi," a word meaning "prince/president/leader"; he did not refer to himself as a king because "he knew
full well that a Jewish king could only come from the line of David" but he took over the role in everything but name (Spiro, 2009). According to Jewish history,
kings came from the line of David, but the priests, known as "cohanim," came from "the tribe of Levi" (Spiro, 2009). Simon, it appears, should have styled himself as king,
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