You are hereHomeBARMarch/April 2014Modi’in: Hometown of the Maccabees Josephus, Antiquities XIII.210–211, Ralph Marcus, ed. and trans., Loeb Classical Library (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 1976). Josephus probably copied from 1 Maccabees 13:25–30. Join the BAS Library! Already a library member? Log in here. Institution user? Log in with your IP address.