Modin
The city of the Maccabees.
Inhabitants or natives
The apostolic group fights against highway robbers, including Disma, the good thief, in a valley not far from there.
Description
"It is a road that is not safe. Malefactors wait there for caravans and make raids."[1]
Notable events
The apostolic group nearly gets robbed by thieves. Jesus speaks to them.[2] The Risen Jesus meets a Woman who was robbed there.[3]
Its name
Modi'im today Al Midya.
Where is it mentioned in the work?
GRM 222 GRM 223
GRM 524
GRM 632
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Place where the tomb of the Maccabees is located.
Many Jews endured heroic sufferings during the persecution by Antiochus IV Epiphanes who committed "the abomination" of placing a statue of Jupiter in the Temple[4]. At Modin, the elder Mattathias killed a Jew who came to make a sacrifice at the royal altar as well as the Syrian military chief, and called all who loved the law to follow him with his five sons into the mountains. The Maccabean Revolt had begun.
These resisting Jews were called "the Hasidim" (men of the Covenant). The Pharisees were their heirs.
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