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ASSIDEANS (the Anglicized See also:form, derived through the See also:Greek, of the See also:Hebrew Jlasidim, " the pious ")  , the name of a party or See also:sect which stood out against the Hellenization of the See also:Jews in the 2nd See also:century n.c . After the See also:massacre of those who fled from the forces of See also:Antiochus Epiphanes and would not resist on the See also:sabbath, Mattathias (or Judas) decided to set aside the See also:law and was joined by a See also:company of See also:Assideans, brave men of See also:Israel every one, who offered themselves willingly for the law (1 Macc. ii . 42, cf . 2 Macc. viii . I) . On the See also:appointment of Alcimus (162 s.c.), " a descendant of See also:Aaron " as high-See also:priest, " the Assideans were the first who sought See also:peace " (1 Macc. vii . 13 f.); but the treacherous See also:murder of sixty of them (ib . 16) threw them back into the arms of Judas . According to 2 Macc. xiv., Alcimus identified them with the whole party of the rebels, of which they were only one, though the most important, See also:section . See See also:Schurer, Geschichte See also:des jnclischen Volkes, i . 203 ; See also:art. in Jewish See also:Encyclopaedia, s.v . " Hasidim " (S .

M . Dubnow) . (J . H . A .

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