From Ezra to the Last of the Maccabees

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Return from Babylonian exile -- Judaism of Ezra and the Chronicler -- The Jews of Elephantine -- Policies of Alexander the Great -- Impact of Hellenism on Judaism; the scribes -- The Greek version of the Torah -- The persecutions of Antiochus Epiphanes -- The uprising : Judah the Maccabee -- On the road to independence -- Judea a Hellenistic princedom : John Hyrcanus -- Genesis and character of Maccabean Hellenism -- From Alexander Jannaeus to Pompey.