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	Mattathias ben Johanan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Author of the Judean revolt against the Greco-Syrian empire [166 BCE] and patriarch of the Hasmonean dynasty of Judean rulers.
		By birth Mattathias was a lesser priest of the line of Jehoiarib and the family of Hasmon.
		After Antiochus IV pillaged the Temple and replaced Judean religious tradition with Greek worship and culture [167 CE], Mattathias led Judeans to rebel against Syrian domination.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/mattathias.html (149 words)

	July 27, 2004 : The Hasidim IV ~ Covenant People (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		What was special about Mattathias and his family, and also about Orthodox Christians, is the fact that God has chosen to join with us in covenant, to lift us up from the ranks of humanity in general and to bestow upon us a very unique bond with Himself.
		Mattathias' challenge is to base our entire life, to found every action, and to trust at every moment solely in God.
		While Mattathias' recitation of the deeds of the ancient Saints is a challenge to have unreserved trust in God, it also is a challenge to keep faith with those other covenant members who stand beside us now, who have lived before us, and those who will come after us under the covenant.
	www.antiochian.org /print/dynamis/1090900800.html (536 words)

	Judas Maccabeus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Judas Maccabeus (or Judah the Maccabee from the Hebrew יהודה המכבי transliteration: Yehudah HaMakabi) was the third son of the Jewish priest Mattathias.
		However, a priest from Modiin, Mattathias, resisted assimilation and instigated a rebellion when he killed one of the emperor's officers.
		Before the patriarch Mattathias died in 167 BCE, he bestowed upon his sons John, Simon Maccabaeus, Eleazar, and Jonathan Maccabaeus the task of continuing the holy war he had started — with Judas at their head as military chief.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Judas_Maccabaeus (1160 words)

	Biblical Theology Bulletin: Time, communion, and ancestry in African biblical interpretation: a contextual note on 1 ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In this verse Mattathias claims ancestry from Phinehas by noting that the contemporary High Priest, Simon II, is a descendant of Eleazar, son of Aaron and father of Phinehas, the ancestor of Zadok and the Oniads.
		Although Simeon was third in the chain of command of the Mattathias' tribe (1Macc 13), he became the leader of the Maccabean uprising and senior to his brothers ("sound in judgment" as the leader in Isaiah 9:6).
		Mattathias is buried in his ancestral tomb, and all Israel mourns him, in the same way it mourned the defiled sanctuary (1Macc 4:39), the death of Judas (1Macc 9:20) and the death of Jonathan (1Macc 13:26).
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0LAL/is_3_32/ai_94330697/pg_6 (1583 words)

	MACCABEES - LoveToKnow Article on MACCABEES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		At Modin, Mattathias, an aged priest, not only refused to offer the first sacrifice, but slew an apostate Jew who was about to step into the breach.
		In 166 Mattathias died, after charging his sons to give their lives for their ancestral faith, and nominating Judas Maccabaeus as their leader in the holy campaign.
		All the sons of Mattathias had now died for the sake of The Law ; and the result of their work, so valorously prosecuted for over thirty years, was a new-bOrn enthusiasm in Israel for the ancestral faith.
	89.1911encyclopedia.org /M/MA/MACCABEES.htm (1844 words)

	The Maccabean Revolt
		Mattathias, as a leader in the city, was commanded by the officers to be the first person to offer a sacrifice -- as an example to the rest of the people.
		At this point Mattathias was overcome with a passionate zeal to defend his God, and he killed this Jewish man, as well as the officers of the king.
		The aged priest Mattathias was much too old for such a rigorous lifestyle, however, and died in 166 BC just as the rebellion was gaining momentum.
	www.zianet.com /maxey/Inter3.htm (2026 words)

	Nov 20, 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		When Mattathias saw him, he was filled with zeal; his heart was moved and his just fury was aroused; he sprang forward and killed him upon the altar.
		Then Mattathias went through the city shouting, "Let everyone who is zealous for the law and who stands by the covenant follow after me!" Thereupon he fled to the mountains with his sons, leaving behind in the city all their possessions.
		Mattathias rejected the royal blandishments, the high offices, the wealth and the friendship offered by the king.
	home.earthlink.net /~rickpen16/dailyhomily/id21.html (810 words)

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		THE BATTLE WON Mattathias and his sons fled to the hills, and along with their supporters, began a guerrilla war against the Greeks and their Jewish allies.
		Jewish officials were hostile to Mattathias' movement and most of the Jewish community was so far into the process of assimilation that they were ambivalent about the loss of their faith.
		Consequently, Mattathias and his sons fought the guerrilla war for three years until they were able to gain enough support to be a serious threat.
	www.iclnet.org /pub/resources/text/rtg/rtg-rts/rtgrts07.txt (2153 words)

	Heritage
		Mattathias, a member of the priestly Hasmonean family, along with his five sons, led the resistance against the Seleucids.
		Then Mattathias cried out in the town with a loud voice, saying: "Let every one who is zealous for the law and supports the covenant come out with me!" Then he and his sons fled to the hills and left all that they had in the city.
		And Mattathias and his friends went around and tore down the altars; they forcibly circumcised all the uncircumcised boys that they found within the borders of Israel.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/heritage/episode2/documents/documents_8.html (512 words)

	MyJewishLearning.com - Holidays: Maccabees: Heroes or Fanatics
		Mattathias declares, "Let everybody who is zealous for the law and stands by the covenant follow me" (I Maccabees 2:27).
		The implication is that Mattathias derives his political and religious authority from this very act of zealotry, this taking of the law into his own hands, based on his perception that the continued existence of the Jewish community was in danger.
		Although Mattathias saw himself as acting in a situation of conflict between an earthly power and the law of God, his act might be viewed from the outside as one of political terrorism; he had committed murder for the sake of what he perceived to be a greater good.
	www.myjewishlearning.com /holidays/Hanukkah/TO_Hanukkah_History/Revolt_334/Heroes.htm (1618 words)

	Maccabean Revolt
		166 BCE] Mattathias, son of Johanan ben Simeon, a priest of the family of Joarib, left Jerusalem and settled in Modein.
		Many Israelites came to them; but Mattathias and his sons were rounded up together.
		Mattathias and his comrades went about and tore down their altars.
	virtualreligion.net /iho/maccabee.html (724 words)

	First Maccabees: The remarkable story of the Maccabees. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Mattathias' sons, known collectively as the Maccabees, rescued the Jerusalem temple from pagan hands and eventually gained political independence for the Jews.
		Comparisons between Mattathias and earlier heroes of Israel also begin to lay the groundwork for the view that the Maccabees and their descendants were amply qualified to be both kings and priests.
		Mattathias and his five sons had begun their struggle with the goals of rescuing the temple and defending the cause of God and his Torah.
	www.bibarch.com /Perspectives/6.3F.htm (6333 words)

	Christian Conservative
		Mattathias tore down the alter and called for those faithful to the Holy Covenant and the Law of God to follow him to the hills.
		Mattathias and his five sons John, Simon, Eleazar, Jonathan, and Judah mobilized a rebellion as they were quickly joined by the Hasidaeans (aka Hasidim) mighty warriors of Israel, along with a host of Jews who had become fugitives to escape the trouble that fell on them due to their resistance.
		Mattathias was eventually succeeded by his son Judas also known as Maccabeus “The Hammer”, but prior to his death Mattathias spoke with his sons reminding them of the great men of their history.
	christianconservative.blogspot.com /2004/12/happy-hanukkah.html (1128 words)

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		When Mattathias refused, another man from the crowd came forward to offer the sacrifice in his place, inciting an angry Mattathias to kill the man on the altar the king's men had built.
		Mattathias then ran through the village calling for those who still held to the law to join him in a revolt against the Seleucids.
		Mattathias died shortly after the revolt began, but he passed its leadership on to his son, Judas Maccabeus ("the Maccabee").
	www.cbhs.org /rmartin/resources/maccabees_chart.htm (1538 words)

	History : Josephus' writings - Book 12, Ch. 6
		But Mattathias said he would not do it; and that if all the other nations would obey the commands of Antiochus, either out of fear, or to please him, yet would not he nor his sons leave the religious worship of their country.
		So Mattathias got a great army about him, and overthrew their idol altars, and slew those that broke the laws, even all that he could get under his power; for many of them were dispersed among the nations round about them for fear of him.
		When Mattathias had thus discoursed to his sons, and had prayed to God to be their assistant, and to recover to the people their former constitution, he died a little afterward, and was buried at Modin; all the people making great lamentation for him.
	www.godrules.net /library/flavius/flaviusb12c6.htm (701 words)

	Biblical Theology Bulletin: Time, communion, and ancestry in African biblic... @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		According to the narrative, Mattathias together with his five sons (John known as Gaddi, Simon called Thassi, Judas called Maccabaeus, Eleazar called Avaran, and Jonathan called Apphus) engaged in the traditional Middle Eastern ritual to protest the presence of social evil: he tore his garments, put on sackcloth, and observed deep mourning.
		As followers of Mattathias were slaughtered, those who remained alive agreed to expand the activities permitted on the Sabbath in order to fight their persecutors on the Sabbath day if necessary.
		In his exhortation, Mattathias focuses the narrative on the past, and points his sons to the good deeds produced by their ancestors in the past.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:94330697&refid=holomed_1 (10586 words)

	EN World - Morrus' D&D / d20 News & Reviews Site - Falling Leaves: Most unusual tales of the Moonsea (images included, ...
		Mattathias was hurt, and he stumbled back a little, taken by surprise by the sudden onslaught.
		Mattathias had administered a healing ointment to both of the stricken Elves, and while they seemed to stop fading, neither was fit to ride.
		Mattathias shared what little food he had with the poor beast, and Anassa gave it a potion and something else to ease its suffering.
	www.enworld.org /showthread.php?t=85512 (21037 words)

	Judean History
		In the town of Modein, an old priest of the Lord, Mattathias, was presiding over the religious affairs of the community.
		Mattathias then took off for the mountains with his five sons and their families.
		According to Josephus, Mattathias great-great-grandfather was called Hasmon, so the family is known as the Hasmonean family.
	www.realtime.net /~wdoud/topics/judea.html (1797 words)

	Circle of Light - Story of Hanukkah (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Mattathias refused, but another frightened Jew did not, running to the statue and falling to his knees.
		Mattathias became furious at the sight of this traitor, grabbing the sword from the Greek guard and slaying both the offending Jew and the guard.
		Mattathias knew their was no turning back now, and formed a group of Jews which came to be known as the Maccabees (the Hammerers), leading them into the hills where they could not easily be found.
	www.circolite.com /hanukkah/hanukkahstory.htm (755 words)

	FBF - At a Glance
		After Antiochus Epiphanes' desecration of the temple, the priest Mattathias fled with his five sons (John, Simon, Judas, Eleazar, and Jonathan) to Modin (15 miles northwest of Jerusalem).
		Issuing a call to all who were faithful to God and His law, Mattathias fled with his sons and followers into the mountains between Jerusalem and Samaria.
		Mattathias, already aged when the revolt began, died a year later, and the mantle of leadership fell to his third son, Judas.
	www.f-b-f.org /WebMan/Article.asp?ID=4098&Count=true (1397 words)

	Daedalus: 'Fundamentalism' ancient & modern (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		When Mattathias saw this, he was full of righteous rage and killed both the Jew and a Seleucid officer trying to enforce the king's laws.
		Mattathias then cried out, "Let every one who is zealous for the law and supports the covenant come out with me" (1 Macc.
		Mattathias and his sons and others seeking justice and righteousness fled to the hills of Judea.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3671/is_200307/ai_n9299410 (1351 words)

	Hanukah
		This section opened with an autobiographical piece by Mattathias, the elderly father of a priestly family in the small country-town of Modi'in, north-west of Jerusalem.
		And Mattathias saw him and was filled with zeal, and his heart was stirred, and he was very properly roused to anger, and ran up and slaughtered him upon the altar.
		Then Mattathias cried out in a loud voice in the town and said; "Let everybody who is zealous for the Law and stands by the agreement come out after me." And he and his sons fled to the mountains and left all they possessed in the town.
	www.jafi.org.il /education/festivls/hanuka/nhnac2.html (1360 words)

	Table of Contents (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The second and last surviving son of Mattathias of Modein aided and consolidated the gains of his younger brothers, Judah Maccabee and Jonathan.
		As the only son of Mattathias who produced male heirs, he was the real founder of the Hasmonean dynasty.
		Jonathan was the youngest son of Mattathias of Modein and chief lieutenant of his elder brother, Judah Maccabee.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/History/temp.html (1617 words)

	Judas Maccabee
		Maccabee was the surname, or nickname, given to one of the sons of Mattathias, of the house of the Hasmonaeans.
		During an episode where the Syrians were trying to force the Jews to sacrifice to the pagan gods, old man Mattathias rose and slew the Syrians.
		Mattathias did not last long as he was already advanced in years, and could not endure the hardship of the fighting.
	www.ancientroute.com /people/Maccabee.htm (195 words)

	167-143 BCE - War against Greece - Hanukah (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Mattathias proclaims that battle on Shabbat is allowed and necessary in order to protect and save lives.
		Judah, the third son of Mattathias, is called the Maccabee (the hammer) because of his strikes at the Greeks.
		Mattathias dies in the spring of 165 BCE and is replaced by Judah.
	jerusalem-archives.org /period1/1-13.html (613 words)

	Cleveland Jewish News: The Maccabean revolt: It succeeded because Mattathias made a@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Maccabean revolt: It succeeded because Mattathias made a fundamental.
		The Maccabean revolt against the ruling Selucid Syrian-Greek empire succeeded because Mattahias, the priest from Modi'm who originally led the revot, made a fundamental change in Jewish law.
		Mattathias was an obscure member of the priestly caste whose family, originally from Jerusalem, had settled in the little hill town of Modi' in, northeast of the capital city.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:3204627&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (214 words)

	The Handbook of Biblical Numismatics
		The crudeness of Mattathias' coins are evidence of the desperation of his cause.
		#17 - Antigonus Mattathias Prutah with retrograde inscription (Brom.
		The most famous and rarest of all Judaean coins was issued in the final days of Antigonus Mattathias' reign, in a last ditch attempt to rally the Jews against Herod's overwhelming forces.
	www.amuseum.org /book/page6.html (250 words)

	Luke 3:25 The son of Mattathias, the son of Amos
		The son of Mattathias, the son of Amos, the son of Nahum, the son of Esli, the son of Naggai,
		Which was the son of Mattathias, which was the son of Amos, which was the son of Naum, which was the son of Esli, which was the son of Nagge,
		Who was the son of Mattathias, who was the son of Amos, who was the son of Naum, who was the son of Esli, who was the son of Nagge,
	bible.cc /luke/3-25.htm (185 words)

	The Great March: 4. Fight For Right
		While the Greek soldiers were marching through the town, Mattathias and his sons quickly made their plans.
		Mattathias, his face lit up by a holy fire, spoke to his sons gently:
		So, while the soldiers were gathering Jews to sacrifice to the idol, Mattathias and his sons were gathering those Jews who were brave enough to refuse.
	www.sacred-texts.com /jud/tgm/tgm07.htm (1135 words)

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