Hasmonean

Herod tried to bolster the legitimacy of his reign by marrying a Hasmonean princess, Mariamne, and planning to drown the last male Hasmonean heir at his Jericho palace.^([Wikipedia])

The complaint presents the Hasmonean government as though from its inception it was wholly and exclusively dependent on the grace and permission of Rome which was entrusted also with maintaining its internal code of laws.

The accepted date of this letter is 152 B.C.E., before Jonathan the Hasmonean was appointed High Priest, that is, at the end of the time during which, according to Josephus, there was no High Priest in Jerusalem.

It is not my intent, however, to reconstruct Hasmonean history based on these stories, but rather, as stated above, to trace the image of the Hasmonean dynasty in the collective memory of their contemporaries and the following generations, as this emerges from the Josephan and the rabbinic points of view.

I begin this chapter showing that Hasmonean policies, especially military campaigns, were supported by the Judaeans, and that the Hasmoneans acted on behalf of what they considered the basic interests and welfare of their Jewish subjects.

The Hasmoneans were a Jewish family that fought the Seleucid rulers during the mid-second century B.C.E. to create an independent Jewish state, which they at first governed as its political leaders and high priests and then as it kings.

2016, Kenneth Atkinson, Response to Gillihan, Lester L. Grabbe, Gabriele Boccaccini, Jason M. Zurawski (editors), The Seleucid and Hasmonean Periods and the Apocalyptic Worldview, Bloomsbury Publishing (Bloomsbury T&T Clark), page 224, Gillihan proposes that these changes were largely compelled by new historical circumstances, and not by theological convictions the Hasmoneans held from the beginning of their rule.