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December 19, 2023
The Aftermath of the Hanukkah Story and a Very Different Gaza War
The Hasmonean campaign in Philistia.
With Hanukkah having just ended, it seems appropriate to take a closer look at the years in Jewish history that followed Judah the Maccabee’s miraculous victory over the Greek-speaking Seleucid empire in 164 BCE. Lawrence Schiffman examines the wars fought by Judah and his successors—the Hasmonean dynasty—in the coastal territory known in the Bible as the land of the Philistines, and now known as the Gaza Strip:
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