Judas Maccabeus

Target entity: Judas Maccabeus
Context triple: [Battle of Emmaus, commander, Judas Maccabeus]

• A. Maccabees
  The Maccabees were a Jewish rebel group in the 2nd century BCE who led a successful revolt against Seleucid rule and rededicated the Temple in Jerusalem.
• B. Mattathias
  Mattathias was a Jewish priest and patriarch who initiated the Maccabean revolt against Seleucid rule in the 2nd century BCE.
• C. Mattathias Antigonus
  Mattathias Antigonus was the last Hasmonean king of Judea, who ruled in the 1st century BCE before being deposed by the Romans and Herod the Great.
• D. 1 Maccabees
  1 Maccabees is a historical Jewish work recounting the Maccabean revolt against Seleucid rule in the 2nd century BCE, regarded as deuterocanonical by some Christian traditions.
• E. Zealots
  The Zealots were a radical Jewish political and religious movement in the late Second Temple period that advocated armed resistance against Roman rule in Judea.
• F. None of above. chosen
• G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Target entity: Judas Maccabeus
Target entity description: Judas Maccabeus was a 2nd-century BCE Jewish priest and military leader who led the Maccabean revolt against Seleucid rule and became a symbol of Jewish resistance and religious freedom.

• A. Maccabees
  The Maccabees were a Jewish rebel group in the 2nd century BCE who led a successful revolt against Seleucid rule and rededicated the Temple in Jerusalem.
• B. Mattathias
  Mattathias was a Jewish priest and patriarch who initiated the Maccabean revolt against Seleucid rule in the 2nd century BCE.
• C. Mattathias Antigonus
  Mattathias Antigonus was the last Hasmonean king of Judea, who ruled in the 1st century BCE before being deposed by the Romans and Herod the Great.
• D. 1 Maccabees
  1 Maccabees is a historical Jewish work recounting the Maccabean revolt against Seleucid rule in the 2nd century BCE, regarded as deuterocanonical by some Christian traditions.
• E. Zealots
  The Zealots were a radical Jewish political and religious movement in the late Second Temple period that advocated armed resistance against Roman rule in Judea.
• F. None of above. chosen