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ASMONEUS, or ASAMONAEUS (so Josephus)

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 764 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ASMONEUS, or ASAMONAEUS (so
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Josephus)  ,
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great-grandfather of Mattathias, the
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father of Judas Maccabaeus . Nothing more is known of him, and the name is only given by
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Josephus (not in i
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Mace. ii . 1) . But the
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dynasty was known to Josephus and the Mishna (once) as " the sons (
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race) of the Asamonaeans (of A.) "; and the
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Targum of i Sam. ii . 4 has " the
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house of t,` e Hashmoneans who were weak, signs were wrought for them and strength." If not the founder,
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Asmoneus was probably the
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home of the
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family (cf . Heshmon, Jos. xv . 27) . See
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Schurer, Geschichte
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des jiidischen Volkes, i . 248 N;
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art . "
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Maccabees," § 2, in Ency . Biblica . (J .

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