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-Matityahu's middle son
-took over after Matityahu
-after Jews accepted Peace of Lysias he stepped down
-fights Alcimus and frightens him with his strength
-in the battle of Elasa he is killed |
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-one of Matityahu's sons
-killed when he stabbed an elephant and it collapsed on top of him |
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| -tries to take over as king: Lysias wants to stop him |
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-Greek general in charge of crushing "rebellion"
-Peace of Lysias treaty with Jews because he wanted to go stop Philip |
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-wants to be king-killed Antiochus's son and Lysias
-took over throne
-thought Judah was going to rebel so sent Bacchides to restrain them
-was eventually killed by Alexander Balas |
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-hellenized Jew who told Demetrius that Jews were rebelling
-took army to Judea to get rid of Maccabees
-kills 60 scribes in one day
-takes over as high priest
-became paralyzed with disease |
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-sent by Demetrius to help crush "rebellion"
-came with "peaceful but treacherous words"
-started losing wars, decided he didn't care about Jews anyway so killed all the hellenized Jews and ended the trouble |
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-sent by the king to destroy the Jews
-battle was on the 13th of Adar
-Jews won, Nicanor was 1st to die in battle |
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-city in Italy, rising in power
-didn't care about Judea but formed an alliance because they were against Greeks: (my enemy's enemy is my friend) |
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-place where battle took place
-Jonathan's men run, Judah's men stay and fight and die
-Judah dies here |
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-Judah's brother
-became leader after Judah died
-more a diplomat than a military strategist
-goes to meet Ptolemais in Rome and is killed |
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-Alexander wants to be king and marries Cleopatra (Ptolemy's daughter)
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-decided Simon should stay leader unless prophet came and told them otherwise
-said they should pick new Kohen Gadol (?) |
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-religious Jews
-the ones who wanted to fight were called Maccabees |
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| -special royal/ruling family of the Maccabim |
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-takes over as default leader after Jonathan is captured
-not a military genius
-Simon doesn't let Tryphon into the city without a fight, Tryphon leaves
-calls the Great Assembly to decide whether he should stay leader or not
-killed by Ptolemy |
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-Seluecid Greek general
-works for 3 yr old Antiochus
-didn't want to fight Simon's army so left in peace for 100 talents of silver and Jonathans 2 sons
-he said he would release Jonathan but he didn't |
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-Simon's son who took over
-continued in territorial expansion
-worked out a truce with Antiochus VII
-was a Pharisee but converted to Sadducee when Pharisees were not strict in punishment
-someone suggests he kill all the Pharisees |
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-king who conquered 60 cities and has a party
-Yannai is told to kill all the חכמים and he says if he does the Torah will be lost |
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-against territorial expansion
-believe some is fate, some is free will
-believed in תשבע"פ
-had alot of followers
-nice to each other
-believed in afterlife
started off as political groups, turned into religious groups, Josephus describes them as philisophical groups |
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-approved of territorial expansion
-believe everything is free will
-loud, wild, not so nice |
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-while other Pharisees conpliment Hyrcanus's efforts, Eleazar tells him that if he wants to be a good Pharisee he has to give up the high priesthood
-Pharisees and JH get upset |
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-tells king Yannai that the Pharisees don't like him and tells him to put on the ציץ
-suggests to Yannai that he kill everyone who was disrespectful |
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| -told Yannai that only the Kohen Gadol can wear the Tzitz and maybe he should step down as kohen gadol |
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-torah was lost after yannai killed all the talmidei chachamim
-shimon restored it |
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-believe bodies are corruptible, souls are eternal
-very seclusive
-very spiritual |
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| -refraining from physical things for a religious purpose |
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| asceticism but also isolation |
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