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Judaism: Torah, Talmud and Tradition

Judas Maccabaeus

The Jewish Struggle Against the Seleucids

by Bezalel Bar-Kochva

A military history of the Maccabean revolt that examines each of Judas's battles in the light of the sources, the terrain and Seleucid military organisation. Bar-Kochva assesses the size of the armies and the reliability of 1 and 2 Maccabees.

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