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The slingers, as the rest of the dominated by the ruling priestly class. Was the tity of land that could afford them to own a standing army of the beginning of Queen horse, and sometimes to arm a retinue of ten- Salome Alexandra only a reflection of the glo- ants equipped as horsemen.

On the other hand rious days of King Alexander Jannai? Josephus heavy infantry, organized in phalanxes, was the on the other hand writes quite the opposite, prerogative of the gentry, who could afford the that «Queen Salome Alexandra increased her possession of an armor, but not the possession own army to such a degree that she became of a horse.

And the gentry were at least in part terrible to her neighboring tyrants» Thus Pharisees. It is important to stress that King Al- what really happened as a result of the Phari- exander Jannai, to limit the influence of the see purges was probably not a reduction in the Pharisees, some of them his political enemies, number of soldiers, but a decrease in the qual- resorted to the use of Cilician and Pisidian ity of the officer corps.

The author of Judith mercenaries in the Judaean army, that acted as never complains about the number of Jewish semi-heavy and heavy infantry As the Sadducees had sheer terror.

Sekunda, 32 Ibid. Hellenistic Warfare, p. Hackett ed. Warfare in the Ancient World, New York See also N. Sekunda, The Ptolemaic Army, Stockport Neither the high mountains This kind of operation in the Hellenistic Pe- nor the valleys and hills can support the mass riod, to chase and to cut down the fleeing en- of them.

Yet they all seized their weapons, emy, was the prerogative of cavalry and some- lighted fires on their bastions, and kept watch times of light infantry. The meaning is clear. Judith 7, The The Sadducees are back not only as officers, problem is not the soldiers, ready not only to but also as cavalrymen. It is possible then to stand, but also to guard their camps without defeat the enemy completely!

Moreover the superior orders, but their officers. According to author stresses the help of units from Galilee the author one wonders what is happening with leadership. Where are the officers? Did and Gilad, according to their task in the chase, they flee from the field of battle in panic?

The probably light infantrymen, thus hardly Phari- author does not write anything, he lets us guess sees. The victory had been achieved without what is going on.

Still the common soldiers are them. Queen Salome Alexandra takes the does not stop to their handling of the army. She speaks Also their political achievements are criticized. The diplomat turns to be a good Thus the conservative author looks back with commander in chief. She exhorts the soldiers nostalgia to the days when the High Priest, On- to «at daybreak, when the sun rises on the iad or Hasmonean, ruled alone, counseled by earth, Thus according to the author bodied men rush out of the city under com- «Joakim, the high priest, and the senate of the mand of a captain, as if about to go down into whole people of Israel, which met in Jerusa- the plain against the advance guard of the As- lem» Judith 4, 8 give the right orders to the syrians, but without going down Then you Jewish population.

It them down in their tracks» Judith 14, If he had been tains, of officers who will drive them against the Armenians. Obviously these officers had to obeyed since the beginning, nothing negative be Sadducees, called back by the queen.

The would have happened. But the High Priest and army is now ready to fight under courageous his Gerousia are not obeyed any more. Now slaughter, even beyond Damascus and its terri- there was a wider and probably elected body, tory» Judith 15, 5. The last appearance of the Ger- the body is called Presbuteroi tou Laou. The Ger- ousia is in the days of Simon, see the First Book of ousia was still existing in the days of Jonathan, see Maccabees 36, and 20, This body is mentioned on Has- the priests who minister in the presence of our monean coinage and in Josephus God in Jerusalem: things which no layman But who rules the contemporary Hever should even touch with his hands» Judith Ha Yehudin?

The «rulers of the city, who in 11, Judith 5, The author stresses all the things which God in his laws forbade an important point. All these figures are lay- them to eat» Judith 11, Not one of them is a Priest! It is probable author has not to be taken literally.

Obviously that part of these lay elders were Pharisees! However, here course? With the Ekklesia or the General As- there is a polemic not only in politics, but also sembly 36, «all their young men, as well as the on who decides the rules on the Temple women, gathered in haste at the place of as- Mount. The tone of the au- adopted at the beginning of Queen Salome Al- thor is dramatic. Thus the Pharisees together with the People stand as a negative alternative to thor.

Moreover the «Rulers of the city or A last question. Who is the real Achior? This figure appears to be only a literary cre- Thus «all the people, therefore, including ation, as Olophernes is. He is presented as youths, women, and children, went in a crowd «Achior, the leader of all the Ammonites» Ju- to Uzziah and the rulers of the city. They set up dith 5,5. His position is never clear, not to the a great clamor and said before the elders» Ju- reader, nor to Olophernes and the Jews.

At the dith 7, The Pharisees thus cannot control end Olophernes gives him to the Jews as hos- the people in panic, on whose support they tage. The Pharisee leader, Uzziah speaks to He is kept in Bethulia in the house of Uz- the people, who disperse and go back home, al- ziah, one of the «Pharisees» Judith 14,6.

But though «throughout the city they were in great what is most interesting is that at the end of the misery». Judith 7, In fact the people do Book, the author has Achior converted to Ju- not trust their new leaders. Obviously only daism, after he escapes a death sentence Ju- Queen Salome Alexandra, alias Judith, would dith 14, First of all there is a problem.

However the Pharisees are also attacked According to the Pentateuch, an Ammonite not only for their politics, but also for their re- could not convert to Judaism But there was ligious ideas. An speech, the Pharisees are responsible for the Edomite could convert directly to Judaism Thus al- wrath of God. See also ers Simon the Maccabee as the new recognized Y. See Deuteronomy 23,4. Antipater was al- admit the book in the Biblical canon. They had ready quite important.

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