Judah’s success was celebrated for many generations as Nicanor Day (13th of Adar) and commemorated in the Second Book of ...

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1 Maccabees is one of the deuterocanonical books ... and assassinated by Trypho who had taken the Seleucid throne. The Hasmonean kingdom lasted only about a hundred years, but it represented ...