Alexander Janneus

Kung av Judeen 105-78 f Kr Överstepräst.

Familj med Salome Alexandra (139 f.Kr. - 67 f.Kr.)

Noteringar

Alexander Janneus launched wars in all directions against Judea's neighbors. Although he was a Pharisee, he allied himself with the aristocratic Sadducees and showed contempt for the Pharisees, and this precipitated an uprising against him and another civil war. The Pharisees hated Alexander so much that they sought an alliance with the Seleucid monarchy in Syria. The Seleucid monarch sent an army of both Syrians and Jews southward to overthrow Alexander, but those Jews who came south deserted and joined Alexander's forces. Alexander crushed the rebellion against him and took revenge against the Pharisees. He had eight hundred of them crucified in the center of Jerusalem and is said to have had the throats cut of their wives and children before their eyes, and to have watched some of the crucifixions from a window while dining among his harem. The executions helped to make Alexander Janneus unpopular. Independence had proven of little benefit for common Jews, but with the increase in their misery they intensified their hope for the coming a great king -- a messiah -- and a future life in a spiritual kingdom in heaven.

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