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 | | Jewish Palestine remained part of' the empire of the Ptolemies between 300 and 200 BCE, though that interval was bloodied by four separate cycles of wars involving the rival dynasties. |
 | | Believing Rome to be preoccupied elsewhere, he invaded Egypt in 170 B.C,E. Rumors reached Jerusalem that he had been killed, and the former high priest Jason, returning to Jerusalem with a small army, was apparently welcomed as a far lesser evil than Menelaus. |
 | | Again in 168 BCE, Epiphanes sought to invade Egypt, but within a few miles of Alexandria was halted by a Roman commander and ordered, in a most insulting way, to leave Egypt at once. |
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