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DISCOVERING TORAH
; ...AND often-quoted incidents in the Talmud centers on a debate over a technical issue of Jewish law in which Rabbi Eliezer ben Hyrcanus (2nd Century CE) disagreed with the opinion of the Sages (Baba Metzia 59b). Now Rabbi Eliezer marshalled every imaginable argument...
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Paradeisos found
; ...Josephus called Tyros. It was the estate of Hyrcanus ben Joseph, one of the first Hellenizers...Ptolemy II from this estate in Ammon. Hyrcanus's father Joseph had been tax-collector...such time as his energetic youngest son Hyrcanus bribed his way in Alexandria to take...
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(book reviews)
; ...Judaeo-Christian Studies of Lucerne, in John Hyrcanus I as Seen by Josephus and Other Early Jewish Sources, compares the reports about Hyrcanus in JW 1 [section]68-69 and Ant. 13 [section...priest, prophet, and prince accorded to Hyrcanus. Tessa Rajak, of the University of Reading...
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Mirrored in the past
; ...first half of the second century BCE by a wealthy Jew named Hyrcanus whose family had resided east of the river for generations...thriving cultural center of the region. We know from Josephus that Hyrcanus had spent considerable time there and either he or his architect...
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If walls could talk
; ...Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America, in its building and growth. Located between Rehov Hanevi'im and Rehov Hyrcanus and between Rehov Hahavatzelet and Rehov Harav Kook, in the heart of downtown Jerusalem, the 21st century, modern Hadassah...
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When brothers quarrel, enter the common enemy
; ...Syria-Palaestina." Two Hasmonean brothers, Yohanan Hyrcanus II and Yehuda Aristobulus II, invite...He enters Jerusalem and is welcomed by Hyrcanus. Pompey has to fight to take the Temple...Temple treasury. "The kingdom was given to Hyrcanus, and Aristobulus was carried away," Roman...
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Two Shekel Coin Makes Appearance.
; ...the horns of plenty filled with grapes and wheat, alongside a pomegranat= e that were engraved into the coins of Yehochanan Hyrcanus over 2,000 years= ago. Yehochanan was a ruler during the Hasmonean period. His ancestors were the = Maccabees instrumental...
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Computer Scientist Gives Ancient Lesson to San Jose, Calif., Tech Conference.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
; ...famous Jewish sage, he says, was arguing with a group of fellow rabbis about a fine point in Jewish law. Rabbi Eliezer ben Hyrcanus called upon the Almighty to arbitrate. Mitchell Marcus, chair of the computer department at the University of Pennsylvania...
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Of mutable interests
; ...In Judea, High Priest and King Yohanan Hyrcanus II, the elder son and successor of the...entered Jerusalem. Here he was welcomed by Hyrcanus and his forces. The following year, in...all this in the course of siding with Hyrcanus, the weaker and more pliant of the two...
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Aaaargh, Jewish Pirates.
; ...piracy begins quite a bit earlier. In the time of the Second Temple (63 BCE), Jewish historian Flavius Josephus records that Hyrcanus accused Aristobulus, his brother and leader of the Hashmonaim, of acts of piracy at sea. A more famous Jewish pirate - and...
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