Postbiblical
1.03 Happy Hanukkah, aka the Romans are Coming! (323 BCE-37 BCE)
Aristobulus must have felt confident, having deposed his brother and secured the throne. But just outside the borders of his newly won kingdom events were taking place that spelled doom- not just for his reign, but for the independence of the Jewish Kingdom altogether.
To the north, Judah’s old enemies the Seleucid Greeks were conquered by a relatively new empire with global ambitions: Rome. Judah was next.
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