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Antiochus IV dedicates the Jewish temple in Jerusalem to the Olympian god Zeus. His attempts to Hellenize Israel cause the Maccabees, of the clan of Joarib and led by Judas Maccabaeus, to begin a revolt. The Pharisees emerge as a political faction.
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