Word: maccabeus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fifth column) and deposed High Priest Onias III-a possible Righteous Teacher under this theory. Thus the Wicked Priest becomes one of Antiochus' appointees, Menelaus, who went to work enthusiastically forcing Greek clothes, games and gods on the Jews. Under the priest Mattathias and later his son Judas Maccabeus ("The Hammer"), the old-line Israelites rose to defeat the Syrians and slaughter many of the Hellenistic Jews...
...Judas Maccabeus was succeeded in 160 B.C. by his brother Jonathan, who eventually assumed the office of High Priest as well. Another theory identifies him as the Wicked Priest, since he outraged the religious purists by usurping the priesthood. Scholar Milik holds to this view, citing further the Scrolls' presentation of the Wicked Priest as having rebuilt Jerusalem and been captured and put to death; the known history of Jonathan satisfies both these conditions...
...Jewish Agency, shadow government of the state-to-come, and became the Zionist George Washington. When the British mandate ended, he grabbed a gun, welded his people - who came from concentration camp, ghetto, bank, theater and factory - into an army, and gave them the first Jewish victory since Judas Maccabeus defeated the Syrian Nicanor 2,109 years before...