{"id":14724,"date":"2024-03-25T23:35:47","date_gmt":"2024-03-26T03:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/jewishstudies\/?page_id=14724"},"modified":"2024-06-25T19:04:00","modified_gmt":"2024-06-25T23:04:00","slug":"2023-2024","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/jewishstudies\/research\/maccabees\/2023-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"2023-2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>From Rebels to Rulers: The Hasmoneans and their Kingdom<\/em><\/h1>\n<p>The Maccabees Project resumed programming in 2023-24 with a series of hybrid (in-person\/Zoom) discussions under the broad title <em>From Rebels to Rulers: The Hasmoneans and their Kingdom.<\/em><span>\u00a0The intent is to <\/span>move forward in time, from the initial formation of the Hasmonean Kingdom c. 142 BCE, as detailed in the book <em>The<\/em><span>\u00a0<\/span><em>Middle<span>\u00a0<\/span><span>Maccabees<\/span><\/em><span>, <\/span>to the later second-early first centuries BCE, when the Hasmonean Kingdom was an established presence in the region.<\/p>\n<p>All discussions are at <span>Boston University\u2019s Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies and on zoom.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>To What End? Fortifications along the Margins of the Hasmonean Kingdom<\/em><\/h3>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Oct. 4, 2023<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Speakers: Roi Sabar (Boston University)<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Hasmonean rise<span>\u00a0<\/span><span>to<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span>political legitimacy following the Maccabean revolt went hand-in-hand with terri<span>to<\/span>rial expansion. As narrated in both 1 Maccabees and the Antiquities of Josephus, this was a gradual process that, over some two generations, turned a small local power in<span>to<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span>a regional kingdom by the<span>\u00a0<\/span><span>end<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span>of the second century BCE. In this discussion Doctor Sabar focused<span>\u00a0<\/span><span>on<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span>Two Galilean fortresses whose locations, viewsheds, and chronology have the potential<span>\u00a0<\/span><span>to<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span>clarify the line of \u2013 and rationale for \u2013 the kingdom\u2019s northern margins.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Idumea and the Hasmoneans<\/em><\/h3>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Jan. 31, 2024<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Speakers: Ian Stern (University of Haifa) and Deb\u00f3ra Sandhaus (Ben Gurion University of the Negev)<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span>Idumea is the region that lies between Judea, the Dead Sea, the Negev and the Mediterranean Coast. Josephus lists it among those regions taken by the expansionist Hasmonean polity. His narrative describes a brutal campaign under John Hyrcanus I, in which the cities of Maresha and Adora were taken and the locals were forced to be circumcised. This discussion will focus\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"il\">on<\/span><span>\u00a0the archaeological evidence for the fate of Idumea in the time of the Hasmoneans. Doctor Stern discussed the archaeological evidence from the city of Maresha itself before and after the conquest of John Hyrcanus I. Doctor Sandhaus presented a perspective of the larger region, from the fall the Seleucids to the reign of Herod.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"responsive-video responsive-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Idumea and Hasmoneans\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gnCfU0b0V4w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>The Coast and the Jezreel Valley in the time of the Hasmoneans<\/em><\/h3>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Feb. 28, 2024<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Speakers: Alexander Fantalkin (Tel Aviv University) and Matthew Adams (University of Hawai\u2019i)<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to historical narratives the coastal plain between Gaza and the outskirts of \u2018Akko-Ptolemais (excluding Ascalon) was gradually annexed by the Hasmoneans, starting already with the takeover of Jaffa by Simon, while the Jezreel Valley, a pivotal region for transportation and agriculture, was taken by the sons of John Hyrcanus I by the end of the second century BCE. Professors Fantalkin and Adams presented overviews of the archaeological evidence and asked if that evidence affirms, modifies, or undermines those narratives, and how it expands our view of wider social and geopolitical shifts.<\/p>\n<div class=\"responsive-video responsive-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Coast and Jezreel Valley\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/01ezjl78eMs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>The Northern Coast and the Hasmoneans<\/em><\/h3>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Apr. 3, 2024<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Speakers: Becky Martin (Boston University) and Rotem Avneri Meir (University of Helsinki)<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Professor Martin presented archaeological evidence from Tel Dor dating from the late second \u2013 early first centuries BCE, and considered that evidence in light of the historical narrative of Josephus. The former indicates stable and continuous occupation; the latter states that the city was taken by Alexander Jannaeus. Doctor Avneri Meir offered concluding reflections on what the combination of archaeological evidence and the historical record tells us about political geography in the southern Levant in the time of the Hasmonean state.<\/p>\n<div class=\"responsive-video responsive-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Northern Coast Hasmoneans\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cv5ZVt3SYWI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Rebels to Rulers: The Hasmoneans and their Kingdom The Maccabees Project resumed programming in 2023-24 with a series of hybrid (in-person\/Zoom) discussions under the broad title From Rebels to Rulers: The Hasmoneans and their Kingdom.\u00a0The intent is to move forward in time, from the initial formation of the Hasmonean Kingdom c. 142 BCE, as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14211,"featured_media":0,"parent":11119,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/jewishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14724"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/jewishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/jewishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/jewishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14211"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/jewishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14724"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/jewishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14869,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/jewishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14724\/revisions\/14869"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/jewishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/jewishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}