Shifting images of the Hasmoneans : Second Temple legends and their reception in Josephus and Rabbinic literature /

The shifting image of the Hasmoneans' in the eyes of their contemporaries and later generations is a compelling issue in the history of the Maccabean revolt and the Hasmonean commonwealth. Based on a series of six Jewish folktales from the Second Temple period that describe the Hasmonean dynast...

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