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Re: orion-list peacemakers, etc.



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> In his early work, written probably in late first century BCE or
> early first CE, "Every Good Man is Free," Philo located Essenes in
> Palestine Syria and commented on their relations with various rulers over
> *that* country. Who are the rulers referred to? One possibility:
Hasmoneans.
>

One possibility. But a less probable one; more likely he talks about his
contemporaries: Herodians!

Greetings,
Dierk

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