Category:Seleucid Kings (subject)

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Seleucid Kings reigned in the first half of the 2nd century over Judea.

List of Seleucid Kings, and years in office

< Seleucid Kings >

• Antiochus III the Great, 223–187 BCE
  • Took control of the land of Israel with the battle of Panium in 198 BCE
  • Gave his daughter Cleopatra to Ptolemy V Epiphanes to marry in 193 BCE
  • Granted privileges to the Temple and the High Priesthood

• Seleucus IV Philopator, 187–175 BCE

• Antiochus IV Epiphanes, 175–164 BCE

• Antiochus V Eupator, 164–162 BCE
• Demetrius I Soter, 162–150 BCE
• Alexander Balas, 150–145 BCE
• Demetrius II Nicator, 145–139 BCE

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Seleucid Kings in ancient sources

Seleucid Kings in Scholarship

Seleucid Kings in Fiction

Related categories

• Book of Sirach (text) / Book of Daniel (text)

References

• Seleucids / U. Rappaport / T&T Clark Encyclopedia of Second Temple Judaism (2019 Stuckenbruck, Gurtner), dictionary

• Seleucids / Sandra Gambetti / In: The Eerdmans Dictionary of Early Judaism (2010 Collins / Harlow), dictionary, 1212-1215

• / [[]] / In: The Anchor Bible Dictionary (1992 Freedman), dictionary,

External links

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