2nd-century BCE Jews

2nd century BCE Jewish priest and leader of Maccabean Revolt against the Seleucids

Mattathias ben Johanan (, Mattīṯyāhū haKōhēn ben Yōḥānān; died 166–165 BCE) was a Kohen (Jewish priest) who helped spark the Maccabean Revolt against the Hellenistic Seleucid Empire. Mattathias's story is related in the deuterocanonical book of 1 Maccabees and in the writings of Josephus. 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.

Queen regnant of Hasmonean Judaea from c.76 to 67 BCE

Leader of the Hasmonean dynasty from 161 to 143 BCE

Maccabean revolutionary

2nd-century BC Jewish scribe, author of Sirach

philosopher

High Priest in the Temple in Jerusalem

Hellenistic Jewish historian (fl. ca. 100 BCE)

the oldest of the sons of Mattathias, and brother of Judas Maccabeus

Jewish Pharisee scholar (c. 140–60 BCE)

Jewish dramatist who wrote in Alexandria, Egypt circa 3rd century BCE