Cairo, Jerusalem, and Damascus: . y Jews and Moslems was se-lected for sacrifice. Interférence with the exerciseof the law provoked resentment which no amount ofoppression of a différent sort could hâve awakened:the family of Mattathias, a descendant of Asmoneus,was found equal to organising résistance, and itsmembers by their victories secured to their country-men a fresh lease of independence, and renewedprosperity for Jérusalem. A tower commandingthe Temple area which had been erected by the per-secutors was destroyed by the defenders of Judaism,and the Temple purifîed f rom its défilement.
Cairo, Jerusalem, and Damascus: . y Jews and Moslems was se-lected for sacrifice. Interférence with the exerciseof the law provoked resentment which no amount ofoppression of a différent sort could hâve awakened:the family of Mattathias, a descendant of Asmoneus,was found equal to organising résistance, and itsmembers by their victories secured to their country-men a fresh lease of independence, and renewedprosperity for Jérusalem. A tower commandingthe Temple area which had been erected by the per-secutors was destroyed by the defenders of Judaism,and the Temple purifîed f rom its défilement. To the Maccabaean period—or a little later—therebelongs a description of the city, professedly writtenby a Greek of the third century ^ but in realityby a Jew of a much later time, anxious as many as ofhis race hâve often been to conceal his nationalityand identity. Whether this writer had ever seenthe city which he depicts is uncertain : in any case hisaccount is quite idéal and belongs rather to the con- [308]. -Hr
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