Mattatias
Query URLs
https://term.museum-digital.de/md-de/persinst/131368
- Name (English)
- Mattatias
- Short name
- Mattathias
- Year of birth
- -201
- Year of death
- 166
- Short Description
- "Mattathias ben Johanan (Hebrew: מַתִּתְיָהוּ הַכֹּהֵן בֶּן יוֹחָנָן, Matīṯyāhū haKōhēn ben Yōḥānān) (died 165 BCE) was a Kohen (Jewish priest) whose role in the religion-driven Maccabean Revolt against the Hellenistic Seleucid Empire is related in the Books of the Maccabees. Mattathias is accorded a central role in the story of Hanukkah and, as a result, is named in the Al HaNissim prayer Jews add to the Birkat Hamazon (grace after meals) and the Amidah during the festival's eight days." - (en.wikipedia.org 12.08.2021)
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