In boasting of his support among African American voters, Donald Trump made some false and misleading statements: 1  Trump claimed âAfrican American youth is 58 percent unemployed.â The official unemployment rate for blacks ages 16 to 19 in January was 25.2 percent.
The descendants of Mattathias. The Maccabees, also spelled Machabees (Hebrew: ××××× or ××§×××ââ, Maqabim; Latin: Machabaei or Maccabaei; Greek: Î¼Î±ÎºÎºÎ±Î²Î±á¿Î¿Î¹, Makkabaioi), were the leaders of a Jewish rebel army that took control of Judea, which at the time had been a province of the Seleucid Empire.
I Maccabees was originally written in Hebrew as an official court history for the Hasmonean Dynasty. II Maccabees was originally written in Greek and based on earlier work written by Jason of Cyrene. This revolt of the Jews sets a precedent in human history. It is the world's first ideological/religious war.No one in the ancient world died for their gods; only the Jews thought that their religion â the only monotheistic religion at the time â was worth dying for.e know the details of the Jewish fight against the Greeks and Hellenism from the two Books of the Maccabees as well as the writings of the Jewish historian Josephus.