. "Jewish unconventional fighters (Maccabees)" . . . . . . . "The Maccabean Revolt was a conflict, lasting from 167 to 160 BC, between a Judean rebel group known as the Maccabees and the Seleucid Empire. In the narrative of I Maccabees, after Antiochus issued his decrees forbidding Jewish religious practice, a rural Jewish priest from Modiin, Mattathias the Hasmonean, sparked the revolt against the Seleucid Empire by refusing to worship the Greek gods."@en . . . "Seleucid Empire" . . . . . . . . "Revolt of the Maccabees"@en . "Jewish sovereignty" .