Chapter LIX: Section CXVI: The Decline of the Maccabean Kingdom. GENERAL QUESTIONS

1. Describe the character of Alexander Janneus. 2. His military policy. 3. His treatment of his subjects. 4. The extension of Jewish territory. 5. The effects of his rule. 6. Alexandra's policy. 7. The fatal mistakes of the Pharisees. 8. The suicidal quarrels between her sons, Hyrcanus and Aristobulus. 9. The intrigues of Antipater. 10. The appeal to Rome. 11. Pompey's intervention and capture of Jerusalem. 12. The causes of the fall of the Maccabean kingdom. 13. The political effects of the Maccabean struggle. 14. The impression which it made upon Israel's faith. 15. The new spirit that it inspired in the Jews.

SUBJECTS FOR SPECIAL RESEARCH: 1. Rome's policy and campaigns in the East. Goodspeed, _Hist. of Anc. World_, 311-9; Seignobos, _Hist. of Rom. People_, 126-30. 2. Rome's earlier relation to the Jewish kingdom. 3. The character and career of Pompey. Goodspeed, _Hist. of Anc. World_, 343-9; Botsford, _Hist. of Rome_, 175-80, 183-9; Morey, _Outlines of Roman Hist._, ch. 20.

THE RULE OF ROME