Eleazar Maccabeus, a prominent leader in the Maccabean Revolt of 167–160 BCE, was killed in a bizarre fashion during the Battle of Beth Zechariah. Maccabeus had an army of 20,000 men ...

4. A fixed canon. After the Antiochene persecution (about 164 b.c.), probably Judas Maccabeus and his associates fixed the canonical books into three divisions: the Law, the Prophets, and the ...

Mattathias soon dies, but appoints his son, Judas Maccabeus, to take command of the military forces they have gathered (2:66). Judas leads the Jewish people in a series of astounding victories ...

By 1745 Handel was again playing to empty houses and nearing poverty. Not until his oratorio Judas Maccabeus, which was misunderstood by the English as a veiled nationalistic anthem, did Handel ...

Joshua and Judas Maccabeus. The three others are Queen Elizabeth I, Christ and St Peter. The concept of the Worthies has a wider European context - they were a literary and artistic subject in ...

Our Excursions concert takes place on Saturday, May 4, 2024, 8 p.m. at the St. Paul’s Centre in Orillia. Concert tickets are ...

This year, April 2, at 7pm, marks another roof-raising outing for Handel’s oratorio Judas Maccabeus – admission still the same footling, fatuous almost flippant fiver of which we wrote two ...