THE NEW SCHAFF-HERZOG
but the retainers of Pompey killed Aristobulus before he could leave Rome, and soon after the same fate met Alexander. He left behind 5. The two children, the offspring of Alexan- Downfall dra, the daughter of Hyrcanus, of of the great beauty but not very intellectual, Family, and a brother, An tigonus. When Caesar gained the mastery in the East, the control of Palestine inclined in fact, though not in name, to the Idumean Antipater ; but since he was regarded as a foreigner, and therefore hated by the Jews, on the break-up caused by Caesar's death they rallied to the support of Antigonus. Meanwhile Antipater's son, Herod, whose desire was to have both the form and the fact of the former power of Hyrcanus, became engaged to Mariamne, the beautiful daughter of the pretender Alexander and the granddaughter through her mother of Hyrcanus. This was a move inspired as much by politics as by
power of the house, Antigonus, whose Hebrew name, Mattathias, recalled that of his ancestor. The book which reflects the period of the family is the Psalms of Solomon; the New Testament is silent, with the single exception of the reference in Heb. xi. 35-36, which mentions no names.
(J. Hatjssleiter.) In the following genealogical table of the Hasmonean family, the numbers in parentheses preceding the name indicate the order of dynastic succession, the numbers in parentheses following the name indicate the years during which office was held, a number preceded by d. indicates date of death; m. signifies married.
Bibliography: Sources are I Mace, II Mace, and Josephus, Ant., books xii.-xiv.; Dan. xi. 21-45; cf. also the commentaries upon the Books of Maccabees and on Daniel. Consult on the history of the period: Schiirer, Geschichte, i. 165-387, Eng. transl. I., i. 186-432 (contains full notes and reference to the sources and subsidiary
Hashmon.
I Simeon ( = Hashmon?).
John (Johanan).
Mattathias d. 166 B.C.
John d. 161. (3) Simon (142-d. 135). (1) Judas (165-d. 161). Eleazar d. 162. (2) Jonathan (161-d. 143).
Judas d. 135. (4) John Hyrcanus (135-d. 105).
Mattathias. d. 135
(5) Aristobulus I. (105-d. 104). Antigonus d. 105. (6) Alexander Jannseus (104-d. 78). (7) m. Alexandra (78-d.
(9) Hyrcanus II. (63-d. 30).
(8) Aristobulus II. (69-63) d. 49.
Alexandra d. 28.
Alexander d. 49.
(10) Mattathias Antigonus (40-d. 37).
Aristobulus d. 35.
Mariamne d. 29 m. Herod the Great.
Alexander d. 7.
Aristobulus d. 7.
inclination. In the year 40 B.C., after a victorious campaign by the Parthians in hither Asia, Antigonus as king of Jerusalem was drawn into the conflict, and had Hyrcanus mutilated and sent to Babylon, for which he himself suffered at the hand of the lictors a sad end three years later. In the year 37 Herod was made king of Jerusalem, and was placed in possession after the capture of Jerusalem in that year. He became virtually the executioner of the Hasmonean family. Hyrcanus, eighty years of age, was enticed from Babylon, entangled in a fictitious conspiracy, and put to death. Alexander's son, Aristobulus, the brother-in-law of Herod, came naturally into the high-priesthood, but fell a victim to Herod's suspicion. A little later Mariamne was executed by Herod's order. Thus a historical review of the course of the Hasmoneans reveals a wide abyss between the glorious achievements of the founder of the house, Mattathias, and the inglorious end of the last representative of the kingly
literature); J. Derenbourg, Essai sur I'histoire et la geographie de la Palestine, Paris, 1857; L. F. J. Caignart de Saulcy, Hist, des Machabees ou princes de la dynastie asmoneenne, Chateauroux, 1880; W. Fairweather, From the Exile to the Advent, London, 1895; A. W. Streane, The Age of the Maccabees, ib. 1898; A. Biichler, Die Tobiaden und die Oniaden im II. M akkabaerbuche, Vienna, 1S9G; S. Mathews, Hist, of N. T. Times in Palestine, New York, 1899 (a handbook, clear and popular); J. S. Riggs, Hist, of Jewish People, Maccabean and Roman Periods, New York, 1899 (valuable as a first book); B. Niese, Kritik der beiden M akkabaerbucher, nebst Beitragen zur Geschichte der makkabaischen Erhebung, Berlin, 1900; H. F. Henderson, The Age of the Maccabees, London, 1907; W. Schmidt- Oberlosonitz, Die Makkabaer, Leipsic, 1907; DB, iii. 181- 187; EB, iii. 2850 sqq.; the appropriate sections in the various histories of Israel and the Jews, e.g., by Ewald, Hitzig, Gratz, Renan, and Wellhausen.
On special topics consult: J. Wellhausen, Pharia&er und Sodducoer, Greifswald, 1874; F. W. Madden, Coin) of the Jews, London, 1881; C. R. Conder, Judas Maccabeus and the Jewish War, London, 1894; H. Weiss, Judas Makkabaus, Freiburg, 1897; I. Deutsch, Die Regierungszeit der judaischen Kbnigin Salome Alexandra, Magdeburg, 1901; G. F. Handel, Judas Maccabeus, London, 1901.