John Hyrcanus vs. the World (134-103 BCE) 

If you read the prophecy of Daniel it talks about the Intertestamental period. Even predicting the rise of the Greeks then the Romans. It briefly discusses the Maccabean Rebellion as well

Not so silent years, eh?

the church doesn't mention so, so much cool history

@@scharb depends on the church. You also have to consider that information can only be passed by those who have it so if your local rector, pastor, priest, or Sunday school teacher doesn’t know about it it’s not going to be taught. Also, there are many different aspects and approaches to faith. Many like it taught as a history lesson, knowing we are one thread in the tapestry that makes our tradition. Others like to focus on the psyche/spirit and developing internally. And still others like to focus on practical applications of the here and now. Kind of difficult to cover all of those all the time.

Definitely. The entire story of the Maccabean revolt and Hasmonean period in general would make an amazing storyline worthy of an HBO production if you ask me. And still, John Hyrcanus deserves a story of his own

Atraides!!!

Lol. Oscar Isaac was born to play Jews on the silver screen.

@@saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014 he looks Jewish enough, and already played Marc Spector a Jewish Marvel character. In fact, despite being Latino, he has played Greek and Armenian too.

@@vinfacts11Yup. And he played Mossad agent Peter Malkin in Operation Finale. He’s really good at playing Jewish characters for some reason lol.

Some "chosen people" they are.

Thanks for the corrections! It's always great when there's a community following channels like this with expertise of their own so we can get a fuller picture by reading the comments.

U lost me when you included Philadelphia in your statement.

@@MickeyMouse-ef4ez There was a city of Philadelphia (which meant, in ancient Greek, “City of Brotherly Love”) located in Egypt, about 75 miles to the southwest of modern day Cairo, founded during the Ptolemaic Period (305-30 BCE). The more you know.

alexandra the homeless?

@@crhu319 The Jews maintained successful kingdoms from the founding of David's Kingdom in about 1077 BC to the fall of the Kingdom of Judah in 587 BC. Then, they achieved at least local rule, and even independence at times, from their return from Babylon under permission of Cyrus the Great in 538 BC until the culmination of their reckless folly of revolting against Rome and the destruction of Herod the Great's Second Temple in 70 AD. The Jews later repeated the idiocy of revolting against Rome under Bar Kochba, who murdered not just Romans, but Jews, as well, who did not support him. After his death and defeat in 135 AD, the Romans had finally had enough, and they expelled Jews from much of the land of Israel. However, being a fair and just people, the Romans did not extend that expulsion to most of the Jews of the Galilee who had not joined Bar Kochba and who had remained loyal to Rome. So, even after these disastrous revolts, there were Jews in the Holy Land, and there would remain small communities there up until the time of the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948 AD. Therefore, Jews have been in that land since the time of King David himself.

Aristobulus locked up his mother, not his wife. Alexandra had a son named Aristobulus too, but that came much later.

On a coin.

Thanks, I gotta start somewhere!

@@SamAronow Thanks Sam! I was checking to see how you were teaching Jonathan married Alexandra for I knew Josephus wrote Alexandra married Alexander Jannaeus. It was a relief to realise he had changed his name for some peculiar reason. Preachers of Christianity claim the Maccabees were not legitimate High Priests and that they killed all the High Priests to take up the priesthood for themselves. Steven-ben-denoon even goes so far as to say they are the Nephilim and speaks viciously against the Maccabees. That is wrong! Although as you say, as warriors, they, were not in line with the designated requirements of the High Priesthood and after John Hyrcanus his descendants did do what we could judge to be unacceptable behaviour. Do you know whether or not the Maccabee linage could have continued down to this day? An ancient parchment found at Qumran dated between 200 BCE and 100 AD reads "the traitors shall not be (counted) reckoned among the council of the people. Their names shall not be written in their book, from the day the Beloved Teacher dies until the Messiah from Aaron and Israel appears. etc.. So who is the beloved teacher? The archaeologist Simcha Jacobovici has uncovered interesting information from Israel's ancient Hebrew stone inscriptions. One that was found does have the writing of the Beloved Teacher and two Messiah's either that or one Messiah coming to earth on two occasions. I understand the second to be the correct according to scripture because Hebrews 1:6 reads 'When he again brings His Firstborn into the inhabited earth'. Genesis 49:10, 25 relates prophesy by Jacob of two blessings that points to the Messiah in the first century, then the King and High Priest in the second coming as written in Hebrews chapters 7; 8; 9.. All of religion Jewish, Christian and Islam all have testimony of a second birth being the end-time promise but none of them are able to understand or accept that. What I know to be correct is that is the reason and explanation of why the Messiah will come in the manner of Melchizedek as King and High Priest. There is a covenant promise that Phinehas whom Mattathias claimed these Hasmoneans descended from would have offspring who would have a promise of a priesthood to time indefinite as written Numbers 25:10-13. I have a story I offer you if you will consider helping me to prove these things. I would like to write more but that is not feasible on internet. I have written a great deal as it is. Now I pray to my Elohim Yah'ahavah-Nisei-Yireh (Jehovah or Yahweh Nis'si (Exodus 17:15, 16) and Jehovah or Yahweh Jireh (Genesis 22:14) to get this message to you and I pray you will read it and consider what the word of Almighty God is as it is written in scripture and how your knowledge and understanding of the High Priesthood is important

@@junedewar3551 The Maccabean lineage passed down *only* through the children of Herod and Mariamne, because Herod had all the other Hasmonean descendants killed. After Agrippa the Great, the Herodian dynasty split into four distinct branches: The Iturean branch, the last branch to actually rule, seems to have died out around the Bar Kochba Revolt with the death of Julia Crispina, granddaughter of Julia Berenice. The Armenian branch, descended from Alexander ben Herod, married out of the Jewish tradition. The Italian branch, led by Princess Drusilla, was wiped out in the descruction of Pompeii. The Egyptian branch married into the alabarchy of Alexandria and seem to have had the last known Herodian descendant, an alabarch named Anastasius who served under the Severan Dynasty. The Egyptian branch is the only remnant of the Hasmonean or Herodian dynasties that could have living descendants.

@@SamAronow What about Herod and Mariamnes' grandson Alexander son of Alexander and Glaphyra of Capadoccia? Is there any record of that linage? Glaphyra and her two sons went back to Cappadocia after Alexander and Aristobulus were strangled by Herod on account of Antipater son of Herod and Doris.

p.s. thank you for taking time to reply!

1. During the Persian era, Jews were allowed to live wherever they wanted. Most lived in Old Judea, but many remained in Babylon, others moved to Egypt, and others resettled in the Galilee, which is why many villages there are named after cities in the south (Bethlehem, Jaffa, Beersheba). The Samaritans had become much reduced in number since the Assyrian conquests two centuries earlier, and many of them had joined and assimilated into the Jews since then, with the rest living in the northern mountains between the Galilee and Old Judea. As a result, the Galilee throughout the Second Temple Period was majority-Jewish. 2. The Hasmonean Kingdom was a Jewish kingdom centered in the region of Judea (Old Judea). Jews, Judaism, and Judea [Yehudim, Yahadut, and Yehuda] all come from the same root. Israel was the Northern Kingdom and its descendants were the Samaritans. The better question is why the modern State of Israel is called that, and that's because Old Judea was mostly allocated to the proposed Arab State in the 1947 UN partition plan.

@@SamAronow Thank you for the detailed answers! But, I think you misunderstood my second question.. Weren't Jews, before the diaspora, calling themselves Israelites (as in nation of/Am Israel)? For instance, I remember reading that the high priest was called "High of priest of Israel", and that Jews never referred to themselves as Judeans or Jews, but as Am Israel (or something like that). Therefore, wouldn't it make sense for the Hasmoneans to name their kingdom Israel (as in the nation) even when their kingdom is based around Judea proper?

Ah, well the whole "Israelite" thing and the legend of the united monarchy started under Josiah, right before the end of the First Temple Period, but the name Judah for the country and its inhabitants persisted. "Am Israel" and "Eretz Israel" are more poetic designations, in the same fashion that Britain is sometimes called "Albion."

​@@SamAronowI was interested in this subject of Jewish ethnonyms. I did a thorough number of related n-gram searches on Google Scholar, comparing instances "Jews" "Israelites" and "Hebrews" in the text of known public domain books over the centuries. I also did several JSTOR searches for those terms, sorted "oldest first." The n-gram data show that these terms rotated in popularity over the centuries. I got the impression that prior to the 1800's, Christians tended to use the word "Israelites" when they thought they were being compassionate. it's been pointed out that the moment the word "Jews" replaces "Israelites" or "Hebrews" in the New Testament is after the depicted betrayal of Jesus. It's apparently a meaningful name change, signifying that this is the moment we ceased to be Israelites--a religious identity--and instead became Jews, a geographic identity. The name change is supposed to symbolize the moment Israelites/Jews were "unchosen," in Christian supercession theology. One of the interesting things about Jews is the fact that we've never shied away from the word "Jews," even though it's the same name our enemies pronounce with venom.

It's a Kevin MacLeod song, his music is free to use with credit so a lot of RU-vidrs use his music in their videos

@Goosa Poosa i don't know the name of the song, sorry

Because they are the majority of the Jewish people

I'm from a mid east Christian family that still speaks Aramaic. John is Yohana in Aramaic/Hebrew and my middle name James is Yaqub. Jesus we say Yeshua.

@@Aj-zr8dz Wow, i didn't know anyone still speak Aramaic! But i think "John" in the video may speak Hebrew as a first language.

@@johnyradio2 Indeed at that time he probably spoke Hebrew. Aramaic is a sister language, many words and names are shared. The further back you go, the closer the two languages are and I'm fascinated by attempts to reconstruct the parent/proto language that branched off into Hebrew and Aramaic.

@@johnyradio2 Aramaic is really a family of languages, there are so many different dialects including Judeo-East Aramaic that Kurdish Jews speak which is also influenced by the Iranian languages. There's a few Aramaic speaking villages in Syria including a very rare but small Aramaic speaking Muslim population.

Yeah.... what you said. And lots of people speak aramaic and Hebrew here in America (Babylon)