We are in the midst of the Hanukkah season, the eight-day festival that commemorates the second century BC victory of Judah Maccabee and his family over the forces of the Seleucid king Antiochus ...

Hanukkah focusses on the Maccabean struggle for freedom of religion in the second century BCE against the idolatry of the Syrian Greeks, ruled by Antiochus Epiphanes. (Natalia Ganelin / Getty Images) ...

Greetings from Antiochus Epiphanes: The earliest evidence to date for the use of ceramic rooftiles in the Land of Israel has been uncovered in the City of David National Park surrounding the walls of ...

Hanukkah is coming the evening of Thursday, December 7, 2023! The Festival of Lights is a joyous time of year for the Jewish community and one of the most famous of their celebrations in the Western ...

Do you know the origin of the phrase “a line on the sand”? Believe it or not, it’s related to the story of Hanukkah, and it refers to the beginning of the end for that story’s main villain, Antiochus ...

An Israeli antiquity authority worker removes dust at a site that archaeologists say contains the remnants of an ancient Greek fortress associated with the Jewish holiday Hannukah, outside the walled ...

1. Upon Rosh Hashana 3627, Greek King Antiochus VII Sedetes, “Antiochus the Pious”, heard of the massacre of Ptolemy and in retaliation prepared an army of 20,000 to sack Jerusalem. Upon Yom Kippur, ...

A large stone on which eight letters are engraved, furnishing official documents dating to the days of King Antiochus III, a Syrian ruler who reigned between 223 to 183 B. C. E., has been dug up in ...