So first off, it’s worth pointing out that the Saint Antiochus’ Die in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 can be looted off random bandits and enemies you encounter during your journey. As you’re playing ...

Antiochus IV, referred to as "Evil Antiochus" in Jewish lore, is remembered as a major villain and persecutor in Jewish history, particularly the story of Hanukkah. An ancient coin of Antiochus IV – ...

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The Hannukah issue of the Jewish Chronicle on 1 December, 1961, carried an article by Raphael Loewe on the subject, "Did Greece harm Judaism?" Professor Loewe questioned the widespread view that ...

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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, ...

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) ...

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 ...