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From Text to Tradition
- The Hasmonean Dynasty
- Historical surveys
- Lee I. Levine. “The Age of Hellenism- Alexander the Great and the Rise and Fall of the Hasmonean Kingdom.” Part III
- Primary sources
- Josephus, Antiquities XIII, 179-83- The Ascendancy of Jonathan
- Maccabees 12-15- Jonathan’s Death and the Reign of Simon
- Josephus, Antiquities XIII, 225-9- The Death of Simon
- Josephus, Antiquities XIII, 230-300- The Reign of John Hyrcanus
- Josephus, Antiquities XIII, 301-23- The Reign of Aristobulus
- Josephus, Antiquities XIII, 356-83- The Reign of Alexander Janneus
- Josephus, Antiquities XIII, 398-432- Queen Salome Alexandra
- Josephus, Antiquities XI, 4-79- Hyrcanus II and Aristobulus
- Babylonian Talmud Sotah 49b- Hyrcanus and Aristobulus at War
- Secondary sources
- Steven Fine. “Art and Identity in Latter Second Temple Period Judea- The Hasmonean Royal Tombs at Modi’in.” The Twenty-Fourth Annual Rabbi Louis Feinberg Memorial Lecture in Judaic Studies. University of Cincinnati, 2001.
- Suzanne F. Singer, “The Winter Palaces of Jericho,” Biblical Archaeology Review (3: 2) 1977.
- Images
- Tomb of Jason, Jerusalem, 2nd century BCE.
- Coin of the Hasmonean king Mattathias Antigonous, ruled 37-40 BCE, portraying menorah, (reverse).
- Jericho Synagogue Mosaic