The Epic of the Maccabees Author:Valerie Mindlin & Gaalyahu Cornfeld The great changes that were to follow the eruption of the Western Greeks into the oriental word 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 end of the Old Testament seemed a small, insignificant people isolated within... more » their hills of Judea. Yet within a couple of centuries they would live through the great EPIC OF THE MACCABEES, the stubborn fight of an ancient people to protect their threatened faith and traditions. ......This stirring tale is brought vividly to live by the photographs that accompany it -- reproductions of actual historic artifacts and places -- drawn from museums all over the world. Always an exciting recollection at Hanukkah time, the story is retold here by writers who, living in Israel, bring to it their intimate understanding of the people and places concerned and the latest discoveries of historical research.« less