HUMA 1860 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Antiochus Iv Epiphanes, Simon Bar Kokhba, Sefer Torah
20 Dec 2019
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Installed statues of zeus: offers sacrifices to the greek gods. Exegesis: torah scroll are handwritten on parchment paper, yad - "hand" or torah pointer. Roman general pompey: the main group that survived second temple period was farisys, conflict between different groups, civil way, pompey ruled the land through his own will instead of settling disputes. Herod the great: renovated the temple in jerusalem, killed people he suspected, renovation of the second temple and expanded the region of the temple. Simon bar kokhba (crushed revolt by the romans) Jews were banned from the holy banned and were in exile. Persian empires: achaemenes or achamenian, founded by cyrus the great, parthian (246 bce- 226 ce) Enter the romans (63 bce: conflict among the hasmonenan leaders. In 37 bce the romans put an end to the hasomnean dynasty by approaching herod the great as king of israel: herod was devoted to rome and hellenistic culture but he made many advances on behalf of.
