The Epic of the Maccabees

Plot

The great changes that were to follow the eruption of the Western Greeks into the oriental world of antiquity altered the face of the world and the course of the history of its nations. Among the most affected were the land and people of the BIble, the Jews who, at the endof the Old Testament seemed a small insignificant people isolated within their hills of Judea. Yet within a couple of centuries they would live throught the epic of the Maccabees the stubborn fight of an ancient people to protect their threatened faith and traditions. This stirryin tale is brought vividly to life by the photographs that accompany it--reproductions of actual historic artifacts and palces--drawn from museums all over the world. Always an exciting recollection at Hanukkah time, the story is retold her by writers who., loving in Israel, bring to it their intimate understanding fo the people and places concerned and the lateset discoveries of historical research.