Definitions for "Hasmonean"
Keywords:  bce, dynasty, maccabee, judea, revolt
A family of Jewish patriots to which the Maccabees belonged; period of Jewish history from 167 - 30 B.C.E.
dynasty ruling Judea in the second century BCE; their relationship with the Nabataeans tended to be a stormy one.
the Hellenised name of the Jewish dynasty (152-63 BCE) descended from the Maccabean Revolt against the Greeks in 168-164 BCE.
Keywords:  pertaining
pertaining to the Hasmoneans.