Julius Caesar vs Judas Maccabeus. Who would win?

So, let's say Julius Caesar and Judas Maccabeus somehow manage to piss themselves and go to war. Caesar's XIII Gemina faces around 6,000 of Judas' troops, done with their conquests, so that means they're fitted with Seleucid weapons. They fight in an open plain. Who wins? (Sorry if the thread is boring. It's my first time.)
 
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that would be a serious drinking session leading up to it, since Maccabeus died some 60 years before Julius was born
 
Caesar wins no contest. Maccabaeus was going up against a Seleucid Empire seriously weakened and he was not the only thing Antiochos had to deal with.
 
Caesar all the way. He was a brilliant general, and the XIII Gemina was one of the finest legions Rome ever put into the field. As well, the biblical Book of Maccabees and Flavius Josephus' Jewish Antiquities seem to suggest that Maccabees was better off fighting the Seleucids using their guerrilla tactics. When Judas DID engage the Seleucids (whom were well past their glory days!) in pitched battle, Judas lost big time: it ended up costing him his life.

It will be tough, but in the end, Caesar will be victorious.
 
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