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Footnote 1 - The Hasmonean Kings: Jewish or Hellenistic?

See Suzanne F. Singer, “The Winter Palaces of Jericho,” BAR, 3:2; “Reviews,” BAR, 28:4.

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Endnote 1 - The Hasmonean Kings: Jewish or Hellenistic?

Ehud Netzer, Hasmonean and Herodian Palaces at Jericho. Final Reports of the 1973–1987 Excavations. Vol. I: Stratigraphy and Architecture (Jerusalem, 2001), pp. 2–6, 301–310. The major Hasmonean palace in Jerusalem (probably referred to in Antiquities 13.411; 14.7) did not survive and is not described by Josephus or in any other ancient source.

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Endnote 5 - The Hasmonean Kings: Jewish or Hellenistic?

See Eyal Regev, “The Hellenization of the Hasmoneans Revisited: The Archaeological Evidence,” Advances in Anthropology 7.4 (2017), pp. 175–196.

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Endnote 2 - The Hasmonean Kings: Jewish or Hellenistic?

For a more detailed discussion, see Eyal Regev, “Royal Ideology in the Hasmonaean Palaces in Jericho,” BASOR 363 (2011), pp. 45–72; Eyal Regev, The Hasmoneans: Ideology, Archaeology, Identity, Journal of Ancient Judaism Supplements 10 (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2013).

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Endnote 4 - The Hasmonean Kings: Jewish or Hellenistic?

The exception being an outstanding red-slipped rhyton, an ancient Greek drinking vessel, found in a ritual bath in the Pool Complex that may have been used for “a religious or official ceremony”; see Bar-Nathan, The Pottery, p. 114.

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Endnote 3 - The Hasmonean Kings: Jewish or Hellenistic?

See Rachel Bar-Nathan, Hasmonean and Herodian Palaces at Jericho. Final Reports of the 1973–1987 Excavations. Vol. III: The Pottery (Jerusalem, 2002), pp. 37, 46, 55–56, 95–96, 119–120, 122–124, 196–197.

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