== major editing on the Hasmonean Dynasty == 

 Hello Main Editors at Wikipedia, 

 I felt the need to do more editing that I would have like to on the Hasmonean timeline section as shown below.  Please let me know if this was too much of a change from the writer's original.  Thanks. 
 ===Hasmonean Kingdom=== 

  
 *168-142 BCE. The Maccabee Rebellion, Hanukkah and the Hasmonean Kingdom (164-63) http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/History/Maccabees.html Jewish Virtual Library. 
 *160-60 BCE. Beginning of the formation of the community at Qumran [from whom came the Dead Sea Scrolls]. 
 *134-104 BCE. "Age of Expansion" - John Hyrcanus's [Ethnarch & High Priest of Jerusalem] annexation of Trans-Jordan, Samaria, Galilee and Idumea, forced conversion of Idumeans to Judaism and hiring of non-Jewish mercenaries, etc.