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 Scroll of Antiochus was written to describe what caused the creation of the holiday of Hannukah and to praise its history as significant and sacred. It does so by writing the tale using language ...

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 ...

Greetings from Antiochus Epiphanes: The earliest evidence to date for the use of ceramic rooftiles in the Land of Israel has been uncovered in the City of David National Park surrounding the walls of ...

This post is in partnership with the History News Network, the website that puts the news into historical perspective. The article below was originally published at HNN. Though Hanukkah now is a ...

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, ...