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Alexandra Salome was born on 139 B.C. She was the daughter of Setah Bar Yossei.
(A short biography of Salome Alexandra, the one and only J...)
A short biography of Salome Alexandra, the one and only Jewish queen.
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(As the ruler of Judea from 76 to 67 B.C.E., Queen Salome ...)
As the ruler of Judea from 76 to 67 B.C.E., Queen Salome Alexandra (ca. 141 b.c.e.-67 b.c.e.) appointed the kingdom's high priest, led its men in battle, subjugated neighboring kings, and stopped the religious violence that plagued her society. Presiding over Judea's greatest period of peace and prosperity, she shaped the Judaism of Jesus' day as well as our own. Virtually unknown today, Queen Salome remained so unique that historians have largely ignored her rather than try to explain the perplexing circumstances that brought her to power. This volume recreates Queen Salome's fascinating life and the time in which she lived--an age when women ruled the Middle East.
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Alexandra Salomé é uma narrativa real, cujos fatos são romanceados de forma vibrante, com sucessivas aventuras. Salomé é uma adolescente judia de Maressa, uma pacata aldeia ao sul da Palestina, que, quando da chegada do pai de uma de suas muitas viagens, vê a vida se transformar de forma radical: a menina, que vivia numa torre tranquila da Fortaleza de Maressa, torna se mulher no agitado palácio dos as mondéus, em Jerusalém. Obrigada a esquecer seus sonhos românticos e a se submeter a seu marido, um velho tirano, a jovem se fortalece sem tornar se indiferente ao sofrimento de seu povo e, mesmo sob uma cultura religiosa, que desvaloriza a mulher, consegue se impor, enfim realizando seus sonhos e vivendo um grande amor. Salomé torna se uma grande rainha da história judaica, comparável á grande Cleópatra: seus feitos superam os da rainha Ester, deixando sua marca não só em Jerusalém, como também em toda a Palestina. Uma história imperdível, para aqueles que gostam de grandes histórias.
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Alexandra Salome was born on 139 B.C. She was the daughter of Setah Bar Yossei.
Her personal genealogy is not given by Josephus. Rabbinical sources designate the Sage Simeon b. Shetah as her brother. If this is meant literally and is true, she was the daughter of Setah Bar Yossei. Salome Alexandra's oldest son by Alexander Jannaeus was Hyrcanus II who fought his younger brother Aristobulus II in the 60's BC over the Jewish High Priesthood. Hyrcanus II was eventually successful after enlisting the help of the Nabataean king, Aretas III; bribing Roman officials, including Scaurus; and gaining the favour of Pompey the Great who defeated his brother and took him away to Rome.
Last effective ruler of the independent Hasmonean dynasty in the Land of Israel (76-67 BCE). The queen (known in Hebrew as Shelomzion), was the widow of both Aristobulus I and his brother Alexander Jannaeus. She was not politically active during her husbands’ reigns but became highly popular among the people.
Salome’s reign was generally tranquil. Either as a result of her husband’s dying request or her own initiative, she made peace with the Pharisees. They now became permanent visitors at court, and wielded enough power, according to Josephus to engineer the execution of King Alexander’s former, apparently Sadducee, counselors. They also curtailed Sadducee influence on the country’s highest legislative-judicial body, the Sanhedrin.
The most distinguished of the Pharisee sages at this time was Simeon ben Shetah, apparently not a brother of the queen as hitherto assumed. The queen herself was a devout observer of religious traditions.
A short-lived threat appeared on the horizon with the Armenian King Tigranes’ takeover of Syria. A handsome “gift” and perhaps Tigranes’ need to protect his flank against Rome, saved the day for Alexandra. Her son, Aristobulus, embarked on an expedition against Damascus but scored no success. In her quietly determined manner, meanwhile, the queen greatly increased the size of her country’s armed forces and won the respect of the neighboring states.
The Talmud speaks of the period of Queen Salome Alexandra and Simon ben Shetah as a period of such goodness and piety that God sent rain “in the night of every Wednesday and Sabbath, so that the grains of wheat were like kidneys, the grains of barley like olives.” Alexandra’s reign was additionally a period of important Pharisee legislation, one of the more striking laws being an anti-Sadducee enactment dealing with the Temple water libation ceremony. The enthusiastic Pharisaic encomium on the queen’s rule is also borne out by the fact that her agile though undemonstrative diplomacy gained appreciable influence for the Jewish state throughout the region.
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(A short biography of Salome Alexandra, the one and only J...)
(As the ruler of Judea from 76 to 67 B.C.E., Queen Salome ...)
According to archaeologist Kenneth Atkinson, “There are also some passages in the Talmud that say, during her husband’s reign, that she protected Pharisees and hid Pharisees from his wrath.” Nevertheless, the married life of the royal pair seems to have ended cordially; on his deathbed Alexander entrusted the government, not to his sons, but to his wife.
Her next concern was to open negotiations with the leaders of the Pharisees, whose places of concealment she knew. Having been given assurances as to her future policy, they declared themselves ready to give Alexander's remains the obsequies due to a monarch. By this step she avoided any public affront to the dead king, which, owing to the embitterment of the people, would certainly have found expression at the interment. This might have been attended with dangerous results to the Hasmonean dynasty.