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Antiochus Epiphanes

Antiochus IV Epiphanes, b. 215 BCE, d. 164 BCE. Seleucid emperor, against whose Hellenistic strictures the Maccabees revolted during the Bar Kokhba Rebellion.

Read more in the Jewish Encyclopedia.

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