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TIME BETWEEN THE TESTAMENTS PART II. The Grandeur That Was Rome. Greeks & the Jews (323 – 165 BC). Alexander’s Empire Divided Seleucid Kingdom (Antioch) and Ptolemaic Kingdom (Alexandria) Septuagint Greek names in the New Testament. Hasmonean Dynasty (165 – 63 BC).
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TIME BETWEEN THE TESTAMENTS PART II The Grandeur That Was Rome
Greeks & the Jews (323 – 165 BC) • Alexander’s Empire Divided • Seleucid Kingdom (Antioch) and Ptolemaic Kingdom (Alexandria) • Septuagint • Greek names in the New Testament
Hasmonean Dynasty (165 – 63 BC) • Antiochus IV Ephiphanes • The Macabees & Hanakkuh (165 BC) • Pharisees & Saducees • Jewish Kingdom until 63 BC
To Helen Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore That gently, o’er a perfumed sea, The weary way-worn wanderer bore To his own native shore. On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, Thy Naiad airs have brought me home To the glory that was Greece, And the grandeur that was Rome. - Edgar Allen Poe
Rise of Rome (753 – 202 BC) • Republic ruled by the Senate • Rivalry with Carthage • 2nd Punic War • Defeat of Carthage (202 BC)
Rome Turns East (202 – 63 BC) • Rome Conquers Macedonia and Greece • Seleucid & Ptolemaic Kingdoms fall • Herod the Great • Every Shore of Mediterranean Sea
Republic to Empire (49 – 27 BC) • Julius Caesar Assassinated (44 BC) • Roman Empire is founded (27 BC) • Pax Romana (27 BC to 180 AD) • Bread and Circuses • Romans 5:6