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| Title: Salome Alexandra. A study in achievement, power and survival Type: Thesis Year: 1997 Abstract: "Salome Alexandra made three powerpul changes when she assumed rule of the Hasmonean dynasty in 76 B.C.E. Secular and religious offices were separated. She appointed her son as high priest while she retained control of government. The composition of her internal administration was dramatically altered by her appointment of the Pharisees to articulate Jewish law. This policy shift had lasting impact on Judaism because Pharisaic law became central to Judaic thought of the latter half of the first century B.C.E., and it is generally accepted that Pharisaic law profoundly influenced Rabbinic Judaism. The other forceful change occurring under Alexandra was that she delivered peace to her nation, ensuring her subjects a period of development and procuctivity. The principal themes of this text discuss how Alexandra effected these policies and how they played out during and after her sovereignty. Using multiple methodologies to locate Alexandra, this feminist examination intends to highlight her original historical significance. The historian Josephus was provided the paradigm for the various interpretations offered in this study with his varying accounts of Alexandra. Yet when Josephus writes about Alexandra his texts model partriarchal views and are the loci for much androcentric thinking. However, Josephus does credit Alexandra with keeping her nation in peace. When Alexandra died in 67 B.C.E. with her went the rich treasures of peace and prosperity, and the even fonder hope for the continuing autonomy of Israel. Looking at Alexandra is to look back to the court of John Hyrcanus, and forward to the shadow of Rome over Israel. She was a bridge between the Hasmonean dynasty and the Herodian era". Keywords: Jewish History: Hasmonean / Maccabean Era |