Reading assignments will be due during the second lesson of each week (Tuesdays). For this week, please read Chapter 2 in The History of the Jewish People, vol. 1. When reading, please pay attention to the following:
Vocabulary
Vocabulary
- Judea
- Hellenism
- Ptolemies
- Septuagint
- Seleucids
- Maccabees
- 331 BCE: Alexander the Great Conquers Jerusalem.
- 164 BCE: Maccabees capture Jerusalem.
- 141 BCE: Hasmoneans defeat the Seleucids and declare an independent Judea.