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Ancient conflicts and betrayals amid Seleucid power shifts
The narrative chronicles Selucid and Jewish clashes with Alcimus and Bacchides, Demetrius, and Judas Maccabeus. Key events include tyrant-king dynamics, deportations, massacres of Jews, and Nicanor’s failed siege, culminating in a Judas victory and the ruin of Bacchides’ forces.
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Lysias
Menelaus
Onias
Onias III
Egypt
Alcimus
Jacinus
Demetrius
Seleucus
Antiochus Epiphanes
Rome
Syria
Antiochus
Lyfas
Timarchus
Heraclides
Soter
Antioch
Judea
Judas
Bacchis
Bacchides
Mesopotamia
Nicanor
Razias
Sanhedrim
Israel
Bacchus