asmonean

from The Century Dictionary.

• Pertaining to Asmoneus or Asmonæus, a reputed ancestor of Mattathias, the first of the Maccabees and the father of Judas Maccabæus, who lived about 165 b. c.; hence, pertaining to the Maccabees. See Maccabean.
• noun One of the family of Asmoneus; a Maccabean.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun One of the Asmonean family. The Asmoneans were leaders and rulers of the Jews from 168 to 35 b. c.
• adjective Of or pertaining to the patriotic Jewish family to which the Maccabees belonged; Maccabean.