Chapter X: The Age of the Ptolemies and the Seleucidæ to Antiochus IV

(332-175 B. C. E.)

(_See the Table of the High Priests, p. 128._)

EGYPTIAN KINGS.

323. Ptolemy I Soter,
285. Ptolemy II Philadelphus,
247. Ptolemy III Euergetes,
222. Ptolemy IV Philopator,
205. Ptolemy V Epiphanes,
181. Ptolemy VI Philometor.

SYRIAN KINGS.

312. Seleucus I Nicator,
280. Antiochus I Soter,
261. Antiochus II Theos,
246. Seleucus II Callinicos,
226. Seleucus III Ceraunus,
223. Antiochus III the Great,
187. Seleucus IV Philopator.

323. Death of Alexander the Great.

320. Jerusalem entered by Ptolemy I Soter. A large
number of Judæan prisoners carried to Egypt.

312. THE BEGINNING OF THE SELEUCIDÆAN ERA (Battle of
Gaza).

301. Judæa, a subdivision of Cœlesyria, tributary to
Egypt (Battle of Ipsus); the high priest the
political chief. Judæan colonies in
Græco-Macedonian countries; Greek colonies in
Judæa.

300(about). SIMON THE JUST high priest and the last of the MEN
OF THE GREAT ASSEMBLY.

240. After a struggle between the Ptolemies and the
Seleucidæ, Cœlesyria again adjudged to Egypt.

Onias II, high priest, refuses to pay tribute to
Egypt.

230(about). _Joseph, son of Tobiah_, and grandson of Simon the
Just, represents the Judæans at the court of
Ptolemy III Euergetes and Ptolemy IV Philopator,
and is made farmer of taxes.

Joseph introduces _Greek feasts and games at
Jerusalem_.

218. Judæa sides with Egypt against Antiochus III the
Great.

209(about). Hyrcanus, son of Joseph, Judæan representative at
the court of the Ptolemies.

The “Song of Songs” composed.

203. The Tobiades, the elder brothers of Hyrcanus,
Syrian partisans. Judæa tributary to Antiochus III
the Great.

The HELLENISTS and the CHASSIDIM (Assidæans) begin
to oppose each other.

200(about). _Jesus Sirach_ writes the apocryphal book
_Ecclesiasticus_.

176(about). Heliodorus, treasurer to Seleucus IV Philopator,
attempts to confiscate the Temple treasures.