‘The Hasmonean War was primarily directed against Jews and not against Greeks… meaning the Hellenistic Jews’ (Yeshayahu Leibowitz)
THIS WAS found in an underground cave tomb uncovered by workers widening a road in central Israel. The Hebrew inscription Hashmonaim appears on one of the boxes for human bones – the first evidence, archaeologists say, that the Hasmoneans, or Macccabees, who rebelled against Greek rule in the 2nd ce(photo credit: REUTERS)ByMATAN PELEG
