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| Alexander the Great's Successors |
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Egpytians/Ptolemies
Syrians/Seleucids |
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| The mosta aggressive Hellenizing Seleucid; Abomination of Desolation |
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| 167 BCE; rebellion against Syrian overlords; successfully drive out Syrain army and create the first sovereign Jewish state; led by Judas Maccabeus "the Hammerer" |
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| 167 BCE; rebellion against Syrian overlords; successfully drive out Syrain army and create the first sovereign Jewish state; led by Judas Maccabeus "the Hammerer"; rededicate the temple but the high priest put in place was not from the like of Zadok but of Hasmonean descent |
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| Abomination of Desolation |
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| rededication of the Temple to Zeus |
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