Clements Center Postdoctoral Fellow quoted in The National Interest

“The early phases of the revolt may have looked more like rival Jewish gangs chasing each other around the Judean foothills seeking to settle old scores, with one side backed by the Seleucid garrison recently installed in the city [Jerusalem] and periodically reinforced by contingents brought in by royal officials.” Eventually, “the Maccabees fielded an organized army, based on mass conscription,” Taylor told TNI. “Josephus presents it as a pretty standard Hellenistic force, divided into chiliarchies 1,000 strong.”

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