Amanda Borschel-Dan : Oct 12, 2018
Timesofisrael.com
"We discovered in the pit, bodies and body parts of infants and adult individuals, women and men, who were probably victims of a brutal slaughter." -Dr. Yossi Nagar
(Israel)— [Timesofisrael.com] Evidence of a mass slaying, including cruel beheadings, committed during the bloody reign of the Hasmonean king Alexander Jannaeus (103-76 BC) was recently uncovered in a courtyard next to the Jerusalem municipality during excavations of an ancient water cistern. (Photo: Excavation of a mass burial in Jerusalem's Russian compound, summer 2018/Credit: Kfir Arbiv/Israel Antiquities Authority/via Times of Israel)
As the son of John Hyrcanus, Alexander Jannaeus, known in Hebrew as Alexander Yannai, also served as the High Priest of the Second Temple during his 27-year reign. The era of the "holy man" was marked by court intrigue and seemingly endless war campaigns in which he conquered—and lost—swaths of territory.
It was a time of violent power struggles between the Jewish Sadducees and Pharisees, which led to a six-year Judaean Civil War that... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here.
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