Few ancient sites in the Holy Land have ignited the imagination like the lost tombs of the Maccabees, the family that led a Jewish rebel army to victory against Seleucid religious repression in the ...

The story of the Hasmonean (or “Maccabean”) revolt is preserved in 1 and 2 Maccabees—two very different books, in style, content, views and values. To state the most obvious differences: 1 Maccabees ...

As the insurgency in Iraq continues and questions about its outcome surface, one might look for possible historical parallels–and one of the most successful insurgencies against a colonial power in ...