Original sentence: The Maccabees ( or מקבים, Makabim or Maqabim; Greek Μακκαβαῖοι, /makav'εï/)  were a Jewish national liberation movement that fought for and won independence from Antiochus IV Epiphanes of the Hellenistic Seleucid dynasty, who was succeeded by his infant son Antiochus V Eupator.The Maccabees founded the Hasmonean royal dynasty and established Jewish independence in the Hasmonean Kingdom for about one hundred years, from 164 BCE to 63 BCE
Edited sentence: The Maccabees ( or מקבים, Makabim or Maqabim; Greek Μακκαβαῖοι, /makav'εï/) were a Jewish rebel army who liberated Judea from the rule of the Seleucid empire.They founded the Hasmonean dynasty, which ruled from 164 BCE to 63 BCE, reasserting the the Jewish religion, expanding the boundaries of Judea and reducing the influence of Hellenism