Meaning of Hasmonean | Babel Free

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Of or relating to the patriotic Jewish family to which the Maccabees belonged; Maccabean.

historical, not-comparable

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“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 internal code of laws.”

“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 in Jerusalem.”

“It is not my intent, however, to reconstruct Hasmonean history based on these stories, but rather, as stated above, to trace the image of the Hasmonean dynasty in the collective memory of their contemporaries and the following generations, as this emerges from the Josephan and the rabbinic points of view.”

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