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Hyrcanus II

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DiedJerusalem
Israel
Jerusalem
30 BC
Jerusalem
Successor Aristobulus II
Children Alexandra the Maccabee
Parents Alexander Jannaeus
Salome Alexandra
Siblings Aristobulus II
Grandparents John Hyrcanus
Shetach
Nephew Antigonus II Mattathias
Alexander of Judaea
Date of Reg.
Date of Upd.
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Hyrcanus II Life story


John Hyrcanus II, a member of the Hasmonean dynasty, was for a long time the Jewish High Priest in the 1st century BCE. He was also briefly King of Judea 67–66 BCE and then the ethnarch of Judea, probably over the period 47–40 BCE.

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