Talk:John Hyrcanus

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Hyrcanus and the Pharisees[edit]

I remember reading, but have no current citation, that the Maccabee/Hasmoneans, newly enthroned, also placed some of their relatives in the High Priesthood. That, in addition, the Sadducees would have been the collaborationist (during Persian and Greek domination) priests who, like it or not, were the top experts at all the scribal arts (and thus, indispensable, despite their dubious allegiances in history. That would suggest that Hyrcanus was responsible for the (contemporary to him) Pharisee movement, not Sadducee. 00:01, 23 December 2008 User:JoshNarins

Coin and Its Implications...[edit]

I just changed the transliterated name provided here for Hyrcanus. According to the translation of the coin provided by CNG (http://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=56002), the name is Yehohanan (y-h-h.-n-n). I am also confused as to the rest of the translation because I think that the last word is y-d-a. Either way I can't read it very well, but it seems to be either Y-d-a or Y-h-d which is also found on coins in reference to Judah and not Jews - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yehud_Medinata).

So I think the caption for the coin might be slightly off. I don't want to add anything further on how or if that affects the evidence in this article. Msheflin (talk) 04:12, 24 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Invented contradiction?[edit]

Under the section "Economy..." paragraph 5 we read: " However, elsewhere Josephus reports that the Pharisees did not grow to power until the reign of Queen Salome Alexandra (JW.1.110). This seems to be the source text in question (Wars I:5:2): "110 Alongside her, to help her in ruling, she had the Pharisees, a sect of the Jews visibly more religious than others and devoted to the exposition of the laws." How does this negate the account of an earlier period in which the Pharisees had come to power (and subsequently relinquished it)? Does any authority make such a claim? Bosquero (talk) 04:28, 15 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]