Category:John Hyrcanus II (subject)
John Hyrcanus II (1st century BCE) was a member of the Hasmonean dynasty. He ruled as High Priest from 76 to 66 BCE, after the death of his father Alexander Jannaeus, while his mother Salome Alexandra was ruling as Queen of Judea. At the death of his mother, he was designated to succeed her as King, but was overpowered by his brother Aristobulus II) who took the throne and the office of High Priest, from 66 to 63 BCE. With the Roman intervention in 63 BCE, John Hyrcanus II regained the High Priesthood, while political authority was given to the Idumean Antipater. John Hyrcanus II was deposed in 40 BCE by his nephew Antipater, the son of Aristobulus II who allied himself with the Parthians and with their support was High Priest and King from 40 to 37 BCE. Hyrnanus was mutilated at his ears to make him permanently ineligible for the high priesthood and taken to Babylon. In 36 BCE the new King Herod the Great, who had restored the Roman control of the region, invited Hyrcanus to return to Jerusalem, but then executed him in 30 BCE.
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