Early Judaism- A Comprehensive Overview

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Jewish History from Alexander to Hadrian Chris Seeman and Adam Kolman Marshak From Alexander to Pompey The conquests of Alexande ...

Before Alexander Before the conquests of Alexander, all Jews (so far as we are aware) resided within the confines of the Persian ...

nately, this documentation peters out by the end of the fifth centuryb.c.e. One Hellenistic text, the largely fictionalLetter of ...

capture of Gaza in 332, attributed his victories to the favor of the Jewish god, guaranteed all Jews the right to live by their ...

The Third Century The Ptolemaic Empire dominates the historical record of Jewish life in the third centuryb.c.e.(see map 3). Fro ...

As for Jewish settlement elsewhere in the Ptolemaic Empire (apart from Palestine), we have no direct third-century evidence. The ...

institution of military settlement continued to be an important anchor for Macedonian control in the region, and that Jews could ...

came to power, Antiochus presided over a failing empire. Challenged in- ternally by secessionist forces and confined from withou ...

regulations defined by “the ancestral law” and prescribing a fine to be paid in the event of their violation (Ant.12.145-46). Th ...

tage in Rome created, in effect, a potential usurper “waiting in the wings.” Dynastic rivalry resulting from this heightened the ...

royal patron by legitimate means, consolidated his position (so the hostile narrative claims) by doling out Temple vessels as gi ...

abiding by its laws was put to death (1 Macc. 1:41-61; 2 Macc. 6:1-11). Ac- cording to 2 Maccabees, similar resolutions were ado ...

death of the family’s patriarch Mattathias in 166, his son Judas Maccabaeus assumed leadership of the insurgency. Over the next ...

from Demetrius the high priesthood (Menelaus having been done away with by Antiochus V). Alcimus received military assistance in ...

gically positioned Judea as a potential asset to both contenders. Jonathan exploited the situation, eventually siding with Balas ...

one of the people or of the priests to abrogate any of these things or to oppose things said by him or to convene an assembly in ...