I wonder if they required m'tzitza b'peh?

Ah, the Maccabees, those fine fighters for religious tolerance:

42: Then there united with them {the Maccabees} a company of Hasideans, mighty warriors of Israel, every one who offered himself willingly for the law.
43: And all who became fugitives to escape their troubles joined them and reinforced them.
44: They organized an army, and struck down sinners in their anger and lawless men in their wrath; the survivors fled to the Gentiles for safety.
45: And Mattathias and his friends went about and tore down the altars;
46: they forcibly circumcised all the uncircumcised boys that they found within the borders of Israel.


I Maccabees 2:42-46

And, no doubt, required the use of "metzitza b'peh," which is, if we are to believe the frummer rabbis, the equivalent of Shabbos.

Chappy Hanukkah!