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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The ensuing Maccabbee Revolt (167 BCE) began a twenty-five-year period of Jewish independence potentiated by the steady collapse of the Seleucid Empire under attacks from the rising powers of the Roman Republic and the Parthian Empire. However, the same power vacuum that enabled the Jewish state to be recognized by the Roman Senate c. 139 BCE was next exploited by the Romans themselves.
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1. Hasmoneans are supposedly allergic to images on their coins.
2. Hasmoneans were allied to Rome.
3. The reference to Antiochus' 'Abomination of desolation' in the OT Daniel is verifiably a reference to a Roman Caesar (Titus Flavius).
4. Antiochus' campaign mirrors the Titus campaign in that the temple was sacked. (Very likely this is a back projection of the Titus experience, as well)
5. Greek Normative Ethics as reflected in Ethica Nichomachea
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->According to historical sources including the books 1 Maccabees and 2 Maccabees and the first book of The Wars of the Jews by the Jewish historian Josephus (37âc. 100 CE),[2] the Hasmonean Kingdom rose after a successful revolt by the Jews against the Seleucid king Antiochus IV. After Antiochus' successful invasion of Ptolemaic Egypt was turned back by the intervention of the Roman Republic[3] he moved instead to assert strict control over Israel, sacking Jerusalem and its Temple, suppressing Jewish religious and cultural observances, and imposing Hellenistic practices.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The ensuing Maccabbee Revolt (167 BCE) began a twenty-five-year period of Jewish independence potentiated by the steady collapse of the Seleucid Empire under attacks from the rising powers of the Roman Republic and the Parthian Empire. However, the same power vacuum that enabled the Jewish state to be recognized by the Roman Senate c. 139 BCE was next exploited by the Romans themselves.
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1. Hasmoneans are supposedly allergic to images on their coins.
2. Hasmoneans were allied to Rome.
3. The reference to Antiochus' 'Abomination of desolation' in the OT Daniel is verifiably a reference to a Roman Caesar (Titus Flavius).
4. Antiochus' campaign mirrors the Titus campaign in that the temple was sacked. (Very likely this is a back projection of the Titus experience, as well)
5. Greek Normative Ethics as reflected in Ethica Nichomachea
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->According to historical sources including the books 1 Maccabees and 2 Maccabees and the first book of The Wars of the Jews by the Jewish historian Josephus (37âc. 100 CE),[2] the Hasmonean Kingdom rose after a successful revolt by the Jews against the Seleucid king Antiochus IV. After Antiochus' successful invasion of Ptolemaic Egypt was turned back by the intervention of the Roman Republic[3] he moved instead to assert strict control over Israel, sacking Jerusalem and its Temple, suppressing Jewish religious and cultural observances, and imposing Hellenistic practices.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->