HASHMANNIM ROSTER
In 175 a.C., after occupying Judaea winning it from the Ptolemies, The Seleucids spoiled Jerusalem temple, ransack it and dedicated it to Zeus.
The Jews revolted, lead by he Rabbi Matitiyahu ben Yochanan, and after him by Y'hudhah HaMakabi (Judas Maccabaeus) that starts a guerrilla uprising that will grow to enormous proportion.
The rebels, called Maqabim (Maccabee, literally "The Hammerers") ultimately succeded in beating the Seleucids and founded the Hashmannim (Asmonean) dynasty, that ruled Judaea until the Romans occupied it.
References:
Judas Maccabaeus: The Jewish Struggle Against the Seleucids
The Armies of the Hasmonaeans and Herod: From Hellenistic to Roman Frameworks
Herod's Judaea: A Mediterranean State in the Classical World
MAQABIM REBELS
Maqabim Rebel Slingers
Maqabim Rebels Skirmishers
Maqabim Rebels Archers
Maqabim Rebels
Maqabim Rebel Cavalry
HASHMANNIM ROSTER
Hashmannim slingers
Hashmannim Skirmishers
Hashmannim Archers
Hasmannim Levies
Hashmannim Levy Spearmen
Hashmannim Skirmish Cavalry
Hasmannim Cavalry
Hashmannim Thyreophoroi
Ekatontamachoi
Idumaean Levies
Idumaean Levy skirmishers
Hordus the Great reform:
Doryphoroi Herodioi
Sebastenoi
Ituraean archers
Zamaris Horse Archers
Gallogermanic Guard
Thracian Guard
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The Maqabim Rebels are recorded to be fierce fighters and experts in guerrilla, even if badly equipped, enraged by what the new rulers had done to the Temple
Maqabim Rebel Slingers
Maqabim Rebels Skirmishers
Maqabim Rebels Archers
Maqabim Rebels
Maqabim Rebel Cavalry
After beating the Seleucids, the Maccabee established the Asmonean dinasty.
Even if the starting point of Maccabee revolt was an uprising against the hellenistic rulers and even the hellnistic Jews, ultimately the Asmonean kindom became actually a deeply hellenized state, that used in many fields elements of the greek culture.
Hashmannim slingers
Hashmannim Skirmishers
Hashmannim Archers
Hasmannim Levies
Hashmannim Levy Spearmen
Hashmannim Skirmish Cavalry
Hashmannim Cavalry
Hashmannim Thyreophoroi
“He had however eight thousand in the first rank, which he styled Hecatontomachi, having shields of brass”
Flavius Josephus.
Ekatontamachoi, “The one that fought as a hundred”, were an elite troops of the Asmonean army of Alexander Iannaeus against the Seleucids.
"In the battle under discussion, which took place in the first year of Jonathan's reign, yet another stage is observable: a partial adoption of Roman weaponry and tactics by specially trained units of some 8,000 elite troops. Organized in centuries, these units bore shields that were a Jewish version of the thyreos"
Bar-Kochva “The Battle between Ptolemy Lathyrus and Alexander Jannaeus in the Jordan Valley and the Dating of the Scroll of the War of the Sons of Light; Cathedra 93 (1999)”
Ekatontamachoi
The Idumaean were an Arab tribe living on the Israelite soil, that were forcedly converted to Judaism by the Asmoneans
Idumaean Levies
Idumaean Levy skirmishers
Hordus the Great reform:
Herodes (Hordus) the Great became king of Judaea in 37 a.C., and as an ally of the first roman emperor, Augustus, starts to reform the Asmonean army and to recruit elite mercenaries.
Doryphoroi Herodioi
Sebastenoi
The Sebastenoi, "Devoted", were an elite troop trained by roman officers and equipped in roman fashion
Ituraean archers
Ituraeans were a Syrian Arab people, noted among Herod’s federate troops
Zamaris Horse Archers
Zamaris Babylonians horse archers are noted among Herod’s troops
As many Hellenistic rulers, Herod appealed to northern barbarian mercenaries as elite guards.
Thracians, Germans and Gauls are all attested.
Thracian Guard
“First of all went his guards, then the band of Thracians, and after them the Germans; and next the band of Galatians, every one in their habiliments of war”
Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities, XVII, 198
“He (Augustus) also made him (Herod) a present of four hundred Gauls as a guard for his body, which they had been to Cleopatra before.”
Flavius Josephus, War of the Jews, I, 20, 3
In particular the Gauls and the Germans of Herod's guard could be the same Gabiniani that Pompey gave to Ptolemy, and Caesar, after beating them, gave to Cleopatra.
Gallogermanic Guard