Years covered: 142 BC - 101 BC
Freeing a country is one thing...but keeping it is quite another. Simon the Maccabee is now high priest, and with his sons, he's going to have to fight enemies inside and outside his borders. His son John Hyrcanus will expand the borders and expand the people, as Isaac's sons become one family again.
Cast of Characters
The Jews:
Simon Thassi x
Judah, son of Simon x
Mattityahu, son of Simon x
John Hyrcanus, son of Simon x
John's Queen
Ptolemy ben Ababas, governor of Jericho ?
Shimon Ben Shetach
Salome Ben Shetach
Aristobulus, son of John Hyrcanus
Antigonus, son of John Hyrcanus
Alexander, son of John Hyrcanus
Absalom, son of John Hyrcanus
Eleazar
Yehuda Ben Gedidya
Jonathan the Sadducee
The Seleucids:
Antiochus VI Dionysus x
Diodotus Tryphon x
Antiochus VII Sidetes x
Alexander Zabinas x
Seleucus V Philometer x
Antiochus VIII Callinicus
Antiochus IX Cyzicenus
The Ptolemies:
Ptolemy VIII Physcon x
Cleopatra Thea x
Sources:
Josephus - Antiquities of the Jews
The First Book of the Maccabees
Babylon Talmud, Kiddushin 66a
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