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Alexander to Constantine: Archaeology of the Land of the Bible, Volume 3 is unavailable, but you can change that!

Drawing on groundbreaking archaeological research, Eric M. Meyers and Mark A. Chancey re-narrate the history of ancient Palestine in this richly illustrated and expertly integrated book. Spanning from the conquest of Alexander the Great in the fourth century BC until the reign of the Roman emperor Constantine in the fourth century AD, they synthesize archaeological evidence with ancient literary...

The Maccabees’ rise to power led to significant changes in the administration of the Temple. High priests had traditionally been from the lineage of the ancient priest Zadok (2 Sam 20:25; 1 Kgs 4:2, 4), but around 153/152 B.C.E., Alexander Balas, a claimant to the Seleucid throne, appointed Judas’s brother Jonathan to the position (1 Macc 10:18–44). After Jonathan’s death, his brother Simon succeeded him; a sympathetic account (1 Macc 14:41–47) claims that a stele erected circa 140 B.C.E. proclaimed
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