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Re: Sadducees
You wrote:
>
> ( Tho an attack by Romans comes to mind)
>> Daniel McMenamin
>>
>
>The struggles between the Selucids and the Ptolemics comes to my mind.
>Ptolemy took Kition (home of the Kittim) in 319 BCE. And in 1Macc.
1:1.
>Alex. the Great was said to have come from the Land of the Kittim.
Though
>the Roman=Kittim is a viable equasion, we should not overlook the
>possibility that The Kittim may have been the Macedoneans or the
Ptolemics,
>specifically. After all they were called the Kittim before the Romans
were.
>Plus there is the mention of Demetrius and Antiochus in 4QpNah
2:11-13..
>(Rowley PEQ 1956, pp92-109 and JBL 75, pp. 188-194) Except for the
days of
>Judas Macc. (160 BCE or so) these names do not coencide untill the
days of
>Alex. Jannaeus (103-76 BCE) But Demetrius III is not recorded to have
>entered into Jerusalem as recorded in the Nahum Commentary. While
Demetrius
>I was recorded to have done so in 1Macc. 7::1ff. I date the drama of
the R.
>Teacher and the W. Priest to about 162 BCE. (that was a dating of an
event
>described in the scrolls and not necc. the scrolls themselves)
>
>Lechem
>
Dear Lechem:
Does this exclude the hymn to King Jonathon? Would not this
document push the destruction later than the conflict between the
Alexandrian successors?
Daniel McM