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  Hasmonean - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The leadership of the Hasmoneans was founded by a resolution, adopted in 141 BCE, at a large assembly "of the priests and the people and of the elders of the land, to the effect that Simon should be their leader and high priest forever, until there should arise a faithful prophet" (I Macc.
Alexander reigned from 103 to 76 BCE, and died during the siege of the fortress Ragaba.
From 63 to 40 BCE the government was in the hands of Hyrcanus II as High Priest and Ethnarch, although effective power was in the hands of his adviser Antipater the Idumaean.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hasmonean_Dynasty   (1514 words)

  
 Hasmonean - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In February 135 BCE, he was assassinated at the instigation of his son-in-law Ptolemy.
According to his directions, the government of the country after his death was to be placed in the hands of his wife, and Aristobulus I, the eldest of his five sons, was to receive only the high-priesthood.
By this means he came into the possession of the throne, which, however, he did not long enjoy, as after a year's reign he died of a painful illness (103 BCE).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hasmonean   (1514 words)

  
 Ancient Districts of Anatolia and Asia Minor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
In the 7th and 6th centuries BCE the cities of Ionia were involved in a series of wars with the kings of Lydia, to whom Ionia yielded a nominal submission.
Early in the 1st millennium BCE it is believed to have comprised the greater part of the Anatolian Peninsula, but at the time of the Persian invasion in the 6th century BCE it was limited to the districts known as Lesser Phrygia and Greater Phrygia.
On his overthrow in 66 BCE by the Roman general Pompey the Great, the kingdom was divided, the western portion being joined to the province of Bithynia in a Roman province known as Pontus and Bithynia and the eastern region being assigned to native princes.
www.ancientanatolia.com /historical/ancient_districts.htm   (2731 words)

  
 Biblical history chronology
30 BCE - 10 CE: Hillel and Shammai
587 BCE: Destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple by the Babylonians and Nebuchadnezzar.
4 BCE - 6 CE: Archelaus ethnarch of Judea and Samaria.
www.wysiwyg-webdesign.com /rev/chron.html   (1490 words)

  
 Table of Contents
He was awarded the Judean high-priesthood by Alexander Balas [152 BCE] and later rewarded with full control of Judean territory after he defeated Demetrius II [147 BCE].
After her death [67 BCE] he was deposed by his younger brother, Aristobulus, but with the support of Antipater he was restored to the high-priesthood after Roman forces wrested control of Jerusalem from his brother's aristocratic supporters [63 BCE].
He was supported by the Sadducees but was driven from Jerusalem [65 BCE] by Arab armies of Nabatea [Jordan], who came to his brother's aid at the invitation of Antipater.
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/History/temp.html   (1617 words)

  
 FM 100-103 chptr 4 Army Airspace Command and Control Elements
The BCE's basic missions include processing land forces requests for TACAIR support, monitoring and interpreting the land battle situation for the TACC, providing the necessary interface for the exchange of current intelligence and operational data, and coordinating air defense and airspace control matters.
The Army organizes the BCE as required with manning requirements varying from theater to theater based upon TACC facility limitations, and the command and control architecture of the Tactical Air Force.
The BCE fusion section is collocated with the enemy situation correlation element (ENSCE) of the TACC.
globalsecurity.org /military/library/policy/army/fm/100-103/f1001_5.htm   (3488 words)

  
 BRIEF HISTORICAL BACKGROUND TO THE NEW TESTAMENT
During the latter half of the third century BCE, Rome engaged in a conflict for supremacy with Carthage; the resulting wars were known as the Punic wars.
Between 215-206 BCE, Rome, allied with the Aetolian League, Sparta, and Pergamum, defeated Philip V, king of the Macedonian kingdom, and his ally, the Achaian League, forcing Philip to agree to peace on terms favorable to the Romans and its allies (First Macedonian War).
In 40 BCE Antigonus, the son of Aristobulus II, allied with the Parthians, gained control of Jerusalem; a Hasmonean was once again king.
www.abu.nb.ca /courses/NTIntro/History1.htm   (4360 words)

  
 Hebrews, History Of Judaism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
Already in 139 BCE the Jews of Rome were charged by the praetor (civil administrator) with attempting to contaminate Roman morals with their religion, presumably an allusion to proselytism.
In a work on the analogical interpretation of the Law of Moses, Aristobulus in the 2nd century BCE anticipated Philo in attempting to harmonize Greek philosophy and the Torah, in using the method of allegory to explain anthropomorphisms in the Bible, and in asserting that the Greek philosophers were indebted to Moses.
The Wisdom of Solomon, dating from the 1st century BCE, shows an acquaintance with the Platonic doctrine of the preexistence of the soul and with a method of argument known as sorites that was favoured by the Stoics (Greek philosophers).
www.history-world.org /history_of_judaism.htm   (16182 words)

  
 Chanukah on Virtual Jerusalem
In 143-142 BCE, Demetrius II recognized the independence of Judea, and in 140 BCE, a decree was passed by the Great Assembly in Jerusalem confirming Simon as High Priest, ruler and commander of the Jewish people and making these offices hereditary.
During the reign of his brother Alexander Yannai (103-76 BCE) the Hasmonean state reached the zenith of its power, as the whole of the sea coast from the Egyptian border to the Carmel with the exception of Ashkelon, was annexed to Judea.
The last to attempt to restore the former glory of the Hasmonean dynasty was Antigonus Mattathius, whose defeat and death at the hands of the Romans in 37 B.C.E. brought the Hasmonean rule to a close and prepared the way for Herod.
www.virtualjerusalem.com /jewish_holidays/chanukah/hasmon.htm   (481 words)

  
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 Milton: Areopagitica - Notes
Epicurus (341-270 BCE) taught that all matter is composed of irreducible atoms, which are eternal, and hence were not made by a divine creator.
One of his students, Diogenes the Cynic (died 320 BCE), developed such a reputation for inpudent and insolent rhetoric that the whole school came to be characterized by his practice.
Archilochus of Paros (seventh century BCE) was a lyric and satiric poet, notable for having invented the iambic trimeter and trochaic tetrameter.
www.dartmouth.edu /~milton/reading_room/areopagitica/notes.shtml   (6729 words)

  
 The Priesthoods of the Religio Romana   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
By 250 BCE the Pontifex Maximus was elected in the Comitia Populi Tributa, and by 103 BCE the comitia elected the other pontifices from candidates put up by the Collegium.
Beginning in 212 BCE the Pontifex Maximus came to be elected in a special manner by the minor pars populi.
Established in 196 BCE with originally three epulones, later increased to ten, this collegium was responsible for organizing the banquets of public festivals and games, especially the epulum Jovis, which was the feast held for Senators after the sacrifices made on the festivals of Jupiter Optimum Maximus.
societasviaromana.org /Collegium_Religionis/priesthoods.php   (6171 words)

  
 FM 100-103 chptr 5 - Information Networking
The BCE representative in the plans division needs information on all requests for control measures and restrictions to interface within the TACC's airspace control center.
The BCE A²C² representative, in coordination with the TACC combat plans division, provides approval or disapproval notification for Army airspace requests, orders, and recommendations to the appropriate requesting corps A²C² element (G3), corps FSE, or CRC.
Additionally, the BCE representative provides the current Air Force airspace utilization priorities, control measures or restrictions, and all other elements of information necessary for the corps to maintain a complete A²C² picture.
globalsecurity.org /military/library/policy/army/fm/100-103/f1001_6.htm   (1521 words)

  
 Queen Alexandra
This supports the notion that the speech is derived from the queen's official biographer, shifting the blame for this problem.
After this, when the queen was fallen into a dangerous illness, Aristobulus resolved to attempt the seizing of the government; so he stole away secretly by night, with only one of his servants, and went to the fortresses where his father's friends had been placed.
It was her "desire for things not belonging to a woman" that is blamed for the loss of power of the Hasmonean dynasty that began with the invasion of Pompey in 63 BCE and was completed with the rise of Herod in the year 37.
members.aol.com /fljosephus/QueenAlexandra.htm   (4019 words)

  
 Hasmonean Revolt : Jewish History from WUJS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
The Temple was liberated, purified and rededicated in 164 bce, in remembrance of which the festival Chanukah has been celebrated ever since.
The family, known as the Hasmoneans, assumed both the religious and the temporal leadership of the people and Simeon, at a great assembly in Jerusalem in 140 bce was appointed ethnarch i.e.
This expansionist policy was followed by his successors, particularly Alexander Yannai (103 - 76 bce) under whom all the foreign cities of the country were taken.
www.wujs.org.il /activist/learning/judaism/hasmonean.shtml   (464 words)

  
 Synagogue Faqs
While many renovations of the Temple took place during this time--including an almost complete reconstruction in the first century BCE by Herod the Great--the entire era is nevertheless known as the Second Temple period.
This hall was either: (a) originally built as a synagogue in the second century BCE, or (b) first constructed as a pagan cultic hall, abandoned, and then transformed into synagogue in the first century BCE.
According to reports, the settlement was founded in the second century BCE and was inhabited until 31 BCE when a catastrophic earthquake inflicted considerable damage to the area.
www.pohick.org /sts/faqs.html   (3651 words)

  
 effects   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
Those soldiers who had once been the urban poor had no future except the army, and so they looked to their generals to make the state give them what they needed.
In 103 BCE, the tribune Saturninus provided land grants for veterans.
Later in 100 BCE land grants in Gaul were again given to veterans.
vassun.vassar.edu /~jolott/old_courses/republic1998/marius/effects.htm   (329 words)

  
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[BCE] Kuhn, R. Speech recognition and the frequency of recently used words: A modified Markov model for natural language.
[BCE] Renouf, A. The elicitation of spoken English.
[BCE] Souter, C. A short handbook to the Polytechnic of Wales Corpus.
nora.hd.uib.no /icame/icame-bib2.txt   (4840 words)

  
 Qumran
143 from Alexander Jannaeus (103 - 76 BCE)
16 from Herod Archelaus (4 BCE - 6 CE)
Trench A was the location north of the compound where the rubble from the destruction of level Ib was dumped.
www.menorahcoinproject.org /qumran.htm   (440 words)

  
 Hanuka - Backgrounder
In 198 B.C.E. Antiochus III, king of Syria, conquered Judea and reconfirmed the religious and national autonomy of the Jews.
The resentment among the Jews grew steadily, culminating in 167 BCE with the outbreak of a revolt against Greek rule in Judea.
The rebellion, which began in the village of Modi'in, was led by the old Hasmonean priest, Matityahu.
www.jafi.org.il /education/festivls/hanuka/h1.html   (710 words)

  
 Noricum - Province of the Roman Empire
In approximately 200 BCE, an alliance of 13 of these tribes established the first Celtic Kingdom in Europe, supported by a Council of Elders of all the represented tribes.
In 48 BCE during the Civil War between Caesar and Pompey, the Noricans threw in the full weight of this considerable industry to Caesar's cause.
With the death of Voccio in 16 BCE, Noricum became a full client Kingdom to Rome and would eventually be established as a full province under the Emperor Claudius in the mid 1st Century CE.
www.unrv.com /provinces/noricum.php   (826 words)

  
 Lehrhaus Judaica - The Adult School For Jewish Studies
DeVaux discovered that Qumran was originally settled sometime in the Eighth Century BCE as a defensive outpost of the southern Jewish kingdom of Judah.
This phase was likely closed by two catastrophes: an earthquake and massive fire in 31 BCE (an alternate theory holds that a Parthian Persian invasion in 40 BCE may have been the main cause of Qumran's destruction).
There is no question that the population of Phase II was Jewish, although a few noteworthy changes in one or two of the buildings hint that their practices may have been slightly different.
www.lehrhaus.org /catalog/scrolls/scrolls3.html   (3972 words)

  
 The Jewish Week
The village grew during the Hellenistic Period (332 BCE to 37 BCE), when it was known as Straton’s Tower.
It was seized by the Hasmonean Kingdom in 103 BCE.
In 30 BCE it was handed over to King Herod, the brilliant but brutal monarch who gained fame for his extraordinary architectural achievements, including the summer palace at Masada and the remodeling of the second Temple in Jerusalem.
www.thejewishweek.com /bottom/specialcontent.php3?artid=1009&print=yes   (982 words)

  
 Some Notes on the History of Isopsephia (Gematria)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
B.C.E. (Further, as noted above, they were originally assigned the same numerical values as the corresponding medial forms, which would agree with their originally inconsistent use in medial and final position.)
This is important because the Archaic Greek alphabet had the 27 letters needed to support the three enneads of a complete number system, and it was used this way throughout antiquity (even after three of the letters were no longer used for ordinary writing).
Much later, early in the first millenium BCE, under influence from the (22 letter) Phoenician alphabet, the Greeks reorganized their alphabet and borrowed the Phoenician names of those 22 letters (aleph -> alpha, etc.), and their order (non-Phoenician letters were moved to the end).
www.cs.utk.edu /~mclennan/OM/BA/PT/BA/SNHIG.html   (1289 words)

  
 The Glossary of Terms and Names
Was prompted by the ban on practicing the Jewish religion and desecration of the Temple and lead by Matthatias of the priestly Hasmonean family and later by his five sons, the most prominent warrior of them Judah the Maccabee.
(c.965-930 BCE) son of King David; further strengthened the kingdom; built namy new towns; and erected the Temple of Jerusalem.
The First Temple of Jerusalem was conceived by King David and constructed by King Solomon around 950 BCE as a center of a Jewish religious life on a national scale, replacing local cult centers.
mosaic.lk.net /glossary.html   (2063 words)

  
 4Q Pesher Nahum and the Teacher of Righteousness by Gregory L. Doudna
Although I argue in Appendix B for the former in the context of the Parthian invasion of Judea of c.
40-37 BCE (the traditional date for the end of Qumran’s Period Ib), both the notion of a crisis-hiding as well as the exact date of the end of Qumran’s Period Ib are currently disputed points within Qumran scholarship.
century BCE Qumran was an installation founded and owned by the ruling Hasmoneans in Jerusalem and staffed by retainers of the ruling family may be relevant, though it is difficult to know for sure.
www.bibleinterp.com /articles/Doudna_TeacherofRighteousness.htm   (1903 words)

  
 The Handbook of Biblical Numismatics
After the death of Antiochus VII in 129 BCE, John Hyrcanus achieved the complete independence of Judaea, and greatly expanded his kingdom through conquests of Idumaea, Samaria, and parts of Transjordan and the Galilee.
Under Aristobulus' brother, Alexander Jannaeus, the Jewish kingdom reached its zenith, stretching from Panias to Beer-Sheba, from the Mediterranean coast to the east bank of the Jordan (Transjordan).
After Roman General Pompey annexed the entire Hellinistic East, he captured Jerusalem and dismantled much of the Jewish kingdom, leaving only Judaea, Samaria, the Galilee and Peraea (Transjordan) as a puppet state under Hyrcanus II; Antipater, father of Herod the Great, was made de facto ruler by Julius Caesar.
www.amuseum.org /book/page5.html   (564 words)

  
 Jewish Coins and Jewish Artifacts Mile Chai Jewish Books 800-830-8660
103 BC to 76 CE This coin was struck in Israel 80 years before the 2nd Temple was destroyed in 70 C.E. Coin is approx dime size or slightly smaller
These famous coins minted in Israel were circulated from the 1st Century BCE until the destruction of the 2nd Beis HaMikdash in 132 CE.
These famous coins minted in Israel were circulated from the 1st Century BCE until the destruction of the 2nd Beis HaMikdash [Holy Tempe in Jerusalem] in 132 CE.
www.milechai.com /judaica/jewishartifacts.html   (281 words)

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