Tawayen Maccabean babbar tawaye ce ta Yahudawa wacce ta faru daga 167-160 KZ akan Daular Seleucid da tasirinta na Hellenanci akan rayuwar Yahudawa.Tawayen ya samo asali ne daga ayyukan zalunci na Sarkin Seleucid Antiochus IV Epiphanes, wanda ya hana ayyukan Yahudawa, ya mamaye Urushalima, kuma ya ƙazantar da Haikali na Biyu.Wannan zalunci ya haifar da bullar Maccabees, ƙungiyar mayaka Yahudawa karkashin jagorancin Yahuda Maccabeus, waɗanda suka nemi ’yancin kai.Tawayen dai ya fara ne a matsayin gungun 'yan tawaye a yankunan Yahudiya, inda Maccabees suka kai farmaki kan garuruwan suna kalubalantar jami'an Girka.Da shigewar lokaci, sun kafa rundunar da ta dace kuma, a shekara ta 164 K.Z., suka ci Urushalima.Wannan nasara ta kawo sauyi, yayin da Maccabee suka tsarkake Haikali kuma suka sake keɓe bagadi, wanda ya haifar da bikin Hanukkah.Ko da yake Seleucids a ƙarshe sun tuba kuma suka ƙyale yin addinin Yahudanci , Maccabees sun ci gaba da yaƙi don samun cikakken 'yancin kai.Mutuwar Yahuda Maccabeus a shekara ta 160 K.Z. ta ɗan ba wa Seleucid damar samun iko na ɗan lokaci, amma Maccabees, ƙarƙashin ja-gorancin ɗan’uwan Yahuda Jonathan Apphus, sun ci gaba da yin tsayayya.Rarrabuwar cikin gida tsakanin Seleucids da taimako daga Jamhuriyar Roma daga ƙarshe ya share wa Maccabee hanya samun ’yancin kai na gaske a shekara ta 141 K.Z., sa’ad da Simon Thassi ya kori Helenawa daga Urushalima.Wannan tawaye ya yi tasiri sosai ga kishin ƙasa na Yahudawa, yana zama misali na nasarar yaƙin neman zaɓe na siyasa da juriya ga zalunci na Yahudawa.