HISTORY OF THE JEWS
HISTORY OF THE JEWS
BY HEINRICH GRAETZ
VOL. II
FROM THE REIGN OF HYRCANUS (135 B. C. E.) TO THE COMPLETION OF THE BABYLONIAN TALMUD (500 C. E.)
PHILADELPHIA
THE JEWISH PUBLICATION SOCIETY OF AMERICA
5717-1956
Copyright, 1893, by THE JEWISH PUBLICATION SOCIETY OF AMERICA
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CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
JOHN HYRCANUS.
The Crowning Point of the Period--War with Antiochus Sidetes --Siege of Jerusalem--Treaty of Peace--The Parthian War-- Hyrcanus joins Antiochus--Successful campaigns of Hyrcanus against the Samaritans and Idumæans--The Idumæans forced to embrace Judaism--Destruction of the Samaritan Temple at Gerizim and of the Capital, Samaria--Internal Affairs-- The Parties: Pharisees, Sadducees and Essenes--Their Rise and Constitution--Their Doctrines and their Relations to one another--The Synhedrion--Strained Relations between Hyrcanus and the Pharisees--Death of Hyrcanus page 1
135-106 B. C. E.
CHAPTER II.
HYRCANUS'S SUCCESSORS, ARISTOBULUS I, ALEXANDER JANNÆUS, AND SALOME ALEXANDRA.
Character of Aristobulus--Antigonus--Mythical Account of his Death--Alexander Jannæus: his Character and Enterprises --His Support of the Pharisees--Simon ben Shetach-- Alexander's Breach with the Pharisees, and its Consequences-- His last Wars and Death--Salome Alexandra's Relations to the Opposing Parties--The Synhedrion--Judah ben Tabba and Simon ben Shetach--Institutions against the Sadducees--Party Hatred--Diogenes--Persecution of the Sadducees--Death of Alexandra page 35
106-69 B. C. E.