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| | THE TALMUDIC ERA (300 BCE TO ABOUT 700 CE) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | In 65 BCE the Roman general, Pompey, in Damascus, favoured Hyrcanus after Aristobolus put on a gaudy display of defiance, using what Josephus described as ‘young swaggerers’ dressed in all their finery. |
 | | This in turn led him to kill their two sons, Aristobolus and Alexander in 7 BCE when he rightly suspected that they were trying seize power and avenge the death of their mother. |
 | | Before that, in 30 BCE, he executed John Hyrcanus II, by then, a harmless old man, (before that he was a harmless young and middle aged one). |
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