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See also:JOHN See also:HYRCANUS I ., high See also:priest of the See also:Jews from 135 to 105 B.C., was the youngest son of See also:Simon Maccabaeus. In 137 B.C. he, along with his See also:brother Judas, commanded the force which repelled the invasion of See also:Judaea led by Cendebeus, the See also:general of See also:Antiochus VII.Sidetes. On the assassination of his See also:father and two See also:elder See also:brothers by See also:Ptolemy, See also:governor of See also:Jericho, his brother-in-See also:law, in See also:February 135, he succeeded to the high priest-See also:hood and the supreme authority in Judaea. While still engaged in the struggle with Ptolemy, he was attacked by Antiochus with a large See also:army (134), and compelled to shut himself up in See also:Jerusalem; after a severe See also:siege See also:peace was at last secured only on See also:condition of a Jewish disarmament, and the See also:payment of an See also:indemnity and an See also:annual See also:tribute, for which hostages were taken. In 129 he accompanied Antiochus as a See also:vassal See also:prince on his See also:ill-fated See also:Parthian expedition; returning, however, to Judaea before See also:winter, he escaped the final disaster. By the judicious See also:mission of an See also:embassy to See also:Rome he now obtained See also:confirmation of the See also:alliance which his father had previously made with the growing western See also:power; at the same See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time he availed himself of the weakened See also:state of the Syrian See also:monarchy under See also:Demetrius II. to overrun See also:Samaria, and also to invade See also:Idumaea, which he completely subdued, compelling its inhabitants to receive See also:circumcision and accept the Jewish faith. After a See also:long See also:period of See also:rest he directed his arms against the See also:town of Samaria, which, in spite of the intervention of Antiochus, his sons Antigonus and See also:Aristobulus ultimately took, and by his orders razed to the ground (c. 10q B.C.). He died in 105, and was succeeded by Aristobulus, the eldest of his five sons. The See also:external policy of Hyrcanus was marked by considerable See also:energy and tact, and, aided as it was by favouring circumstances, was so successful as to leave the Jewish nation in a position of See also:independence and of See also:influence such as it had not known since the days of See also:Solomon. During its later years his reign was much distrubed, however, by the contentions for ascendancy which arose between the See also:Pharisees and See also:Sadducees, the two See also:rival sects or parties which then for the first time (under those names at least) came into prominence. See also:Josephus has related the curious circumstances under which he ultimately transferred his See also:personal support from the former to the latter.
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