Noble Death and Dynasty: A Popular Tradition from the Hasmonean Period in Josephus
The First Book of Maccabees ends its historical narrative with the murder of Simon at the hands of his son-in-law, Ptolemy. Flavius Josephus offers a more elaborate narrative of the same event. According to his account, Ptolemy took Simon’s wife and two of his sons as hostages and tormented them whe...
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Brill
2017
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Journal for the study of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic, and Roman period
Year: 2017, Volume: 48, Issue: 1, Pages: 69-91 |
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1 Maccabees
Flavius Josephus
Hasmoneans
John Hyrcanus
Hasmonean women
martyrdom
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