Word: hasmoneans
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Dates: during 1957-1957
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...Milik's colleague, Frank Cross, holds that a more plausible Wicked Priest is Jonathan's brother Simon, who issued a decree (I Maccabees 14: 27-47) that established his descendants, the Hasmonean dynasty, as High Priests in perpetuity, also gave them permission "to stamp out, indeed to persecute, those who refuse to recognize the full legitimacy of his office. This program seems to give the appropriate occasion for the crystallization of the Essene sect." Cross finds further evidence for this identification in a Qumran document that quotes Joshua's curse upon Jericho and follows it with...