[Sir Francis Dashwood]

I don’t know a lot about the interactions between Greeks and Jews. I’ll have to read more.

Antiochus Epiphanes vs. Judas Maccabees

The Ptolemaic pharaohs... The rise of the "Hammer" and the wholesale slaughter of the pagan Greek oppressors...

[gondramB]

>> vs. Judas Maccabees<<

Thank for bringing that up. I’d heard of the Maccabees but I had never put it in historical perspective. It even looks like the the remnants of Alexanders empire were divided and the Maccabees had more conflict with the part called the Seleucid Empire - I had not realized it reached so far and actually rivaled Egypt and fought with Syria. Very interesting.