The Hammer: A Story of the Maccabean Times

Name: The Hammer: A Story of the Maccabean Times
Author: Richmond Seeley Alfred John Church

by Richmond Seeley Alfred John Church

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Chapters (38)

PREFACE
CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
CHAPTER I. A NEW ORDER OF THINGS.
CHAPTER II. ANTIOCHUS.
CHAPTER III. MENELAUS.
CHAPTER IV. AT ANTIOCH.
CHAPTER V. THE WRATH TO COME.
CHAPTER VI. THE EVIL DAYS.
CHAPTER VII. THE DARKNESS THICKENS.
CHAPTER VIII. SHALLUM THE WINE-SELLER.
CHAPTER IX. THE PERSECUTION.
CHAPTER X. IN THE MOUNTAINS.
CHAPTER XI. NEWS BAD AND GOOD.
CHAPTER XII. THE PATRIOT ARMY.
CHAPTER XIII. GUERILLA WARFARE IN THE MOUNTAINS.
CHAPTER XIV. THE BURIAL OF MATTATHIAS.
CHAPTER XV. THE SWORD OF APOLLONIUS.
CHAPTER XVI. NEWS FROM THE BATTLE-FIELD.
CHAPTER XVII. THE BATTLE OF EMMAUS.
CHAPTER XVIII. THE BATTLE OF BETH-ZUR.
CHAPTER XIX. IN JERUSALEM.
CHAPTER XX. THE CLEANSING OF THE TEMPLE.
CHAPTER XXI. THE DEDICATION OF THE TEMPLE.
CHAPTER XXII. WARS AND RUMOURS OF WARS.
CHAPTER XXIII. MORE VICTORIES.
CHAPTER XXIV. THE SABBATICAL YEAR.
CHAPTER XXV. REVERSES.
CHAPTER XXVI. LIGHT OUT OF DARKNESS.
CHAPTER XXVII. A PEACEFUL INTERVAL.
CHAPTER XXVIII. HOPES AND FEARS.
CHAPTER XXIX. CIVIL WAR.
CHAPTER XXX. NICANOR.
CHAPTER XXXI. THE FALLING AWAY.
CHAPTER XXXII. THE LAST BATTLE.
CHAPTER XXXIII. THE HOPE OF ISRAEL.
THE FAMILY OF THE ASMONEANS, OR MACCABEES.
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