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Anyway, Antiochus IV Epiphanes, who was a Seleucid Greek, so Syrian Greek, he was a real persecutor of the Jews.And you get the story of that in the Book of Maccabees.And then you get it in Christianity.
1. The name given in later times to the Asmonæans, a family of Jewish patriots, who headed a religious revolt in the reign of Antiochus IV., 168-161 B.
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