Jewish family of priests from Modeïn, belonging to the Joarib class of priests; the name, which is recorded only in Iosephus and in the Talmud, refers to a not clearly identifiable Ḥašmōn (according to Jos. BI 1,36 father of Mattathias, according to Jos. Ant. Iud. 12,265 his great grandfather). The armed resistance against religious coercion imposed by Antiochus [6] IV., began with Mattathias in 167 BC. In 165, his son Iudas Maccabaeus achieved the recapture and reconsecration of the Temple of Jerusalem. After Antiochus [7] V had restituted the Jewish theocracy…