hasmonean

Herod tried to bolster the legitimacy of his reign by marrying a Hasmonean princess, Mariamne, and planning to drown the last male Hasmonean heir at his Jericho palace.^([Wikipedia])

The complaint presents the Hasmonean government as though from its inception it was wholly and exclusively dependent on the grace and permission of Rome which was entrusted also with maintaining its i

The accepted date of this letter is 152 B.C.E., before Jonathan the Hasmonean was appointed High Priest, that is, at the end of the time during which, according to Josephus, there was no High Priest i

I begin this chapter showing that Hasmonean policies, especially military campaigns, were supported by the Judaeans, and that the Hasmoneans acted on behalf of what they considered the basic interests

The Hasmoneans were a Jewish family that fought the Seleucid rulers during the mid-second century B.C.E. to create an independent Jewish state, which they at first governed as its political leaders an

2016, Kenneth Atkinson, Response to Gillihan, Lester L. Grabbe, Gabriele Boccaccini, Jason M. Zurawski (editors), The Seleucid and Hasmonean Periods and the Apocalyptic Worldview, Bloomsbury Publishin