Antiquities of the Jews

Josephus, Flavius · c. 93–94 CE primary

passage 49 of 1072 · BOOK I. Containing The Interval Of Three Thousand Eight Hundred And

in brief

Hyrcanus captures and then the section contrasts Pharisees and Sadducees: Hyrcanus takes Cyzicenus, destroys Samaria, shifts sectarian allegiance, rules harshly against family, and dies after slaying Antigonus.

Cyzicenus About The Kingdom Hyrcanus Tooksamaria, And Utterly Demolished It; And How Hyrcaus Joined Himself To The Sect Of The Sadducees, And Left That Of The Pharisees.

All Put A Diadem On His Head, And Was Most Barbarously Cruel To His Mother And His Brethren; And How, After He Had Slain Antigonus, He Himself Died.

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topics: conquest, plunder, and captives · counsel and advisers to rulers · faction, party, and civil strife · rank, class, and social order

Antiquities of the Jews · Josephus, Flavius · 93–94