This first version was censored for being considered " subversive " because it portrayed Sebastian being deposed, its comments in favor of an Anglo-Spanish alliance and possible pro-Catholicism, which led to the final version changing to the story of Antiochus ( which led to historical inaccuracy in exaggerating his defeat at that phase in history to fit the earlier text ), turning Spaniards into Romans and the Catholic eremite into a Stoic philosopher.

The candidate learned the history of Maccabee household and how it protected Judea from King Antiochus during the war of independence.

The origin of haftarah reading is lost to history, and several theories have been proposed to explain its role in Jewish practice, suggesting it arose in response to the persecution of the Jews under Antiochus Epiphanes which preceded the Maccabean revolt, wherein Torah reading was prohibited, or that it was " instituted against the Samaritans, who denied the canonicity of the Prophets ( except for Joshua ), and later against the Sadducees.

It is suggested that it was commissioned by Antiochus I, perhaps desiring a history of one of his newly-acquired lands, or by the Great Temple priests, seeking justification for the worship of Marduk in Seleucid lands.

Book 3 relates the history of Babylon from Nabonassaros to Antiochus I ( presumably ).

He also has one of the few absolute dates in Indo-Greek history: after his father held off Antiochus III for two years, 208 – 6 BC, the peace treaty included the offer of a marriage between Demetrius and Antiochus ' daughter.

The Battle of Emmaus took place in 166 BC between the Hasmonean forces of Judea, led by Judas Maccabeus, also spelled Machabeus, or Maccabaeus, known to history as Judas the Hammer, and the third expedition of Greek forces given by Antiochus IV Epiphanes to Lysias.

It is a description of Jewish history from the capture of Jerusalem by the Seleucid ruler Antiochus IV Epiphanes in 164 BC to the fall and destruction of Jerusalem in the First Jewish – Roman War in AD 70.

In Classical antiquity, the city was known as Magnesia ad Sipylum and played an important role in the history of the epoch by being the place where, in 190 BC, Antiochus the Great was defeated in the Battle of Magnesia by the Roman Empire.

* Chapters 2 – 5 contain a brief outline of Jewish history up to Hellenization under Antiochus IV.

The latter was a dark period in Jewish history, especially during the reign of Antiochus Epiphanes, the Syrian king, who committed many outrages against the Jews, sought to establish idolatry in Jerusalem ( abomination of desolation ), and defiled the Second Temple.

* The story of Antiochus and Eumenes of Pergamum ( Tα κατα τoν Aντιoχoν και τoν Περγαμηνoν Eυμενη ), was probably a portion of the preceding work, since the war between the Attalid Eumenes I and the Seleucid Antiochus I Soter was hardly of sufficient importance to give rise to a separate history, and that between Eumenes II and Antiochus III the Great was subsequent to the time of Phylarchus.

They are frequently cited as the first instance in American history when people in the homosexual community fought back against a government-sponsored system that persecuted sexual minorities, and they have become the defining event that marked the start of the gay rights movement in the United States and around the world.

Frankfurter began with a reference to his Jewish roots: “ One who belongs to the most vilified and persecuted minority in history is not likely to be insensible to the freedoms guaranteed by our Constitution .” This was the passage Justices Roberts and Frank Murphy felt was out of place.

Hazara people of central Afghanistan have been persecuted by Afghan rulers at various times in the history.

Chesham has a long history of religious dissent, such as the persecuted Lollards, followers of the John Wycliffe tradition.

For the generations that followed the event came to represent a fundamental insight about the Jews who were to become an exiled and persecuted people for much of their history.

These cults were persecuted throughout most of Brazilian history, largely because they were believed to be pagan or even satanic.

His family was non-religious, but he credits his Jewishness with having shaped his ethical views through being part of a community that has been persecuted throughout history.

Human history is replete with examples of island species that were being persecuted by farmers, ranchers, hunters, sailors ; were being harvested unsustainably ; and were being decimated by introduced species.

For evangelicals who read the New Testament as an inerrant history of the primitive church, the understanding that to be a Christian is to be persecuted is obvious, if not inescapable ”

As well as being a major component in Jewish history, it has significantly affected the general history and social development of the countries and societies in which the persecuted Jews lived.

The Jewish people have been one of the most persecuted groups in history.

There have been several instances in the history of the Catholic Church in Westminster when its followers were persecuted by English governments: most notably during the reign of Queen Elizabeth ( 1558-1603 ) and during the shorter administration of Oliver Cromwell, the republican Lord Protector ( 1653-1658 ).

During the Soviet era, the rebels were persecuted and the uprising was censored out of the history books.

They are frequently cited as the first instance in American history when people in the homosexual community fought back against a government-sponsored system that persecuted sexual minorities, and they have become the defining event that marked the start of the gay rights movement in the United States and around the world.

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Mary vigorously persecuted Protestants, recorded by John Foxe in his Book of Martyrs, which were unprecedented in English history and resulted in an " undying hatred of the pope and of Roman Catholicism which became one of the most marked characteristics of the English for some 350 years ".

* Grabbe, L. L., " A history of the Jews and Judaism in the Second Temple Period, Volume 1 " ( T & T Clark, 2004 )

The book could be seen as an allusion to the history as described by Moses ; for the minor Prophets, in promising God ’ s assistance to his people, must often remind how God in a miraculous manner brought up the Jews from Egypt.

Altogether, there have been about 150 recorded cases of blood libel ( not to mention thousands of rumors ) that resulted in the arrest and killing of Jews throughout history, most of them in the Middle Ages ...

The early history of the synagogue is obscure, but it seems to be an institution developed for public Jewish worship during the Babylonian captivity when the Jews ( and Jewish Proselytes ) did not have access to a Temple ( the First Temple having been destroyed c. 586 BC ) for ritual sacrifice.

Throughout Christian history, some Popes, bishops and some Christian princes stepped up to protect Jews.

Given the great historical link between Persian and Jewish history, modern day Persian Jews are called " Esther's Children ".

20 years later, the Jewish Agency leader, David Ben-Gurion wrote: " Had partition to the Peel Commission partition plan been carried out, the history of our people would have been different and six million Jews in Europe would not have been killed — most of them would be in Israel.

Goebbels concluded that " Two thousand years of Western history are in danger ," and he blamed Germany's failures on the Jews.

* 1941 – Romanian governmental forces, allies of Nazi Germany, launch one of the most violent pogroms in Jewish history in the city of Iaşi, ( Romania ), resulting in the murder of at least 13, 266 Jews.

Jewish holidays, observed by Jews throughout the year, have three principal sources: Biblical mitzvot ( commandments ), rabbinical mandate, and modern Israeli history.

Other calamities throughout Jewish history are said to have taken place on Tisha B ' Av, including King Edward I's edict compelling the Jews to leave England ( 1290 ) and the Jewish expulsion from Spain in 1492.

Throughout Jewish history Jews have compared these passages ( and others ) to contemporary events in search of signs of the Messiah's imminent arrival, continuing into present times.

Other factors in the new philo-Semitism include gratitude to the Jews for contributing to the theological foundations of Christianity and for being the source of the prophets and Jesus ; remorse for the Church's history of anti-Semitism ; and fear that God will judge the nations at the end of time on the basis of how they treated the Jewish people.

Considered a traitor by most Jews, he recorded Jewish history, with special emphasis on the 1st century AD and the First Jewish – Roman War, including the Siege of Masada.

Antiquities of the Jews recounts the history of the world from a Jewish perspective for an ostensibly Roman audience.

Kaplan's theology held that in light of the advances in philosophy, science, and history, it would be impossible for modern Jews to continue to adhere to many of Judaism's traditional theological claims.

Nazi Germany and the Jews: Volume 1: The Years of Persecution 1933 – 1939 ( 1998 ); The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939 – 1945 ( 2007 ), the standard history

However, John A. T. Robinson and other scholars argued for a much earlier dating, based on the fact that the New Testament writings make no mention of ( 1 ) the Great Fire of Rome ( A. D. 64 ), one of the most destructive fires in Roman history, which Emperor Nero blamed on the Christians, and led to the first major persecution of believers ; ( 2 ) the final years and deaths of Paul, who wrote most of the epistles, Peter, whom Catholics recognize as the first pope, and the other apostles ; ( 3 ) Nero's suicide ( A. D. 68 ); or ( 4 ) the total destruction of the temple in Jerusalem ( A. D. 70 ), which Robinson thought should certainly have appeared, considering the importance of that event for Jews and Christians of that time.

The exact forms of what later came to be called Judaism during the times of Moses or during the eras of the Mishnah and Talmud cannot be known today, but Orthodox Jews believe that contemporary Orthodox Judaism maintains the same basic philosophy and legal framework that existed throughout Jewish history, whereas the other denominations depart from it.

The history of Potsdamer Platz can probably be traced back to 29 October 1685, when the Tolerance Edict of Potsdam was signed, whereby Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg-Prussia from 1640 to 1688, allowed large numbers of religious refugees, including Jews from Austria and Huguenots expelled from France, to settle on his territory.

Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan believed that, in light of advances in philosophy, science and history, it would be impossible for modern Jews to continue to adhere to many of Judaism's traditional theological claims.

Reform and Reconstructionist Jews deny that these texts may be used for determining normative law ( laws accepted as binding ) but accept them as the authentic and only Jewish version for understanding the Torah and its development throughout history.

Cook believes that both contemporary Jews and contemporary Christians need to reexamine the history of early Christianity, and the transformation of Christianity from a Jewish sect consisting of followers of a Jewish Jesus, to a separate religion often dependent on the tolerance of Rome while proselytizing among Gentiles loyal to the Roman empire, to understand how the story of Jesus came to be recast in an anti-Jewish form as the Gospels took their final form.