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The Rome not Taken: Pompey, Pigs, and the Implosion of Hasmonean Eschatology

JL;DR SUMMARY Aton Holzer's article explores the Hasmonean admiration for the Roman Republic as depicted in I Maccabees, where Judas Maccabee sought an alliance with Rome. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish HistoryHanukkahPolitical ViolenceHasmoneansRoman RepublicJudah MaccabeeAncient RomeAllianceSeleucid EmpireJudeo Roman Relations

Places mentioned

Rome, Italy
"So Judas chose Eupolemus the son of John of the Haqqoz clan and Jason the son of Eleazar and sent them to Rome to establish friendship and alliance with them, and to remove the yoke from them, for they saw that the kingdom of the Greeks was subjugating Israel into slavery."
Jerusalem, Israel
"and sent to Jerusalem, so as to be a memorial there, among them, of the peace and alliance."
Memphis, Giza, Egypt
"I will kill in Moph (Memphis) and my children I will take out of Moph"
Istanbul, Turkey
"The conquest of Jerusalem by Pompey and his legate M. Aemilius Scaurus is the key historical event, understood as heralding the onset of the eschaton.[13] 4Q386 (Pseudo-Ezekiel) fragment 4 describes the grim fate of Pompey,[14] his assassination by Ptolemy XIII Philopator upon the formers arrival in Egypt in 48 BCE: And the wicked one (ha-rasha)"

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