Jewish theocratic monarchy founded by Simon Thassi after the Maccabean Revolt, ruling Judea and surrounding territories as an independent Hasmonean state until Rome installed Herod the Great.
Ended 37 BCE when Roman forces backing Herod the Great captured Jerusalem and deposed the last Hasmonean king Antigonus II Mattathias; the dynasty itself was then supplanted by the Herodian line.
Specialist monograph on Hasmonean state ideology, religious policy, and material culture; Open Library author page OL3983961A confirmed.
Multi-disciplinary volume covering the archaeology and political history of the Hasmonean kingdom's formative period; published by SBL Press.
Fast's celebrated novel dramatizes the Maccabean Revolt and the rise of the Hasmonean brothers (Judas Maccabeus and Simon Thassi), the founding story of this exact dynasty and kingdom.