• Last lesson
    • Men of action: the Maccabees
      • Revolt against Menelaus
      • Revolt against Seleucids
      • Purification and rededication of the temple
      • Establishment of Hasmonean Dynasty
  • This lesson
    • More on the Hasmonean Dynasty
      • Expansion of Judea
      • Doctrine of proselytizing
      • Position of Galilee
      • John Hyrcanus
      • Aristobulus
      • Jannaeus
      • Civil war
  • Hasmonean Dynasty established
    • Irony of change in philosophy
    • Outcropping of “schisms”
    • Motivation of priestly service corrupted – again
  • Simon ratified as high priest
    • Not a foreign appointment
    • Onias III, IV, etc.
    • Priests and elders agree
    • Hasmonean Dynasty begins in 140 BC
  • Hasmonean embassy in Rome – 159 BC
  • New king in Antioch – 158 BC
    • Demands Judea return to original borders
    • Simon refuses
    • Another war
  • Seleucid-instigated coup attempt
    • Simon and two sons assassinated
    • Third son (John Hyrcanus) escapes
  • John Hyrcanus new high priest
    • Offers troops to Antiochus VII
    • Antiochus VII besieges Jerusalem
    • Imposes new status on Judea
    • Antiochus VII killed in battle vs Parthians
  • Balance of John Hyrcanus’ rule
    • Seleucid empire in disarray
      • Multiple attempts at taking throne
      • All anti-Jewish actions interrupted
      • Empire shrinks
    • Judea again widens its borders
  • Effects of expansion
    • Observance of law vs proselytizing
    • Hellenized cities vs Easternized
    • Idumea
      • Mass forced conversion
      • Defections
      • Conversion not necessarily assimilation