Maccabees

On the political level the response was the nationalist and fundamentalist revolt of the Maccabees.

Who were the Maccabees?

The Maccabees freed Jerusalem and the Temple from Greek rule.

The Maccabees were the Jewish Taliban.

The Maccabees were Jewish takfiris.

The sages of the Talmud were not overly fond of the Maccabees.

The post-canonical apocalypses of Judaism fall within the period beginning with the attempt of Antiochus IV to make the Jews Greeks, and the successful resistance of the Maccabees and their establishment of an independent Jewish kingdom, and ending with the Jewish-Roman wars, the destruction of Jerusalem and the suppression by Hadrian of the final Messianic, political uprising under Bar Cochba; that is, from 108 B. C. to 135 A. D.