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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Solon who wrote (17156)	4/20/2004 10:45:27 AM
From: TigerPaw	Respond to of 28931

I got curious about the era again, and talked to someone currently studying for a Bat Mitzvah. I had known that first century Judea was a semi-autonomoous enclave, but I wasn't sure why it had that status. She told me the story of the Macabees in more detail than a Chanakah song. It seems that after Alexander the Great conquered the area, the people he left behind put Greek statues in the temple. It was the Macabees who dragged them out about 160 BCE. They were not nearly strong enough to defeat Alexander's army so they made a pact with an emerging mercenary force, the Romans. In return they were promised autonomy in the new Roman empire. TP