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↑  Jonathan Stökl, Caroline Waerzegger (2015). Exile and Return: The Babylonian Context. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. ss. 7-11, 30, 226.
↑  Encyclopaedia Judaica. 3 (2nd bas.). s. 27.
↑  Helyer, Larry R.; McDonald, Lee Martin (2013). "The Hasmoneans and the Hasmonean Era".  Green, Joel B.; McDonald, Lee Martin (Ed.). The World of the New Testament: Cultural, Social, and Historical Contexts. Baker Academic. ss. 45-47. ISBN 978-0-8010-9861-1. OCLC 961153992. "Bunun ardından gelen güç mücadelesi Hyrcanus'u Yahudiye'de serbest bıraktı ve o da hızla Yahudi egemenliğini yeniden ilan etti... Hyrcanus daha sonra toprak genişlemesini amaçlayan bir dizi askeri sefere girişti. Önce Ürdün'ün öte yakasındaki bölgeleri fethetti. Daha sonra dikkatini, Yahudiye'yi Aşağı Celile'deki kuzey Yahudi yerleşimlerinden uzun süredir ayıran Samaria'ya çevirdi. Güneyde, Adora ve Marisa fethedildi; (Aristobulus'un) başlıca başarısı, Lübnan ve Anti-Lübnan dağları arasında bulunan Iturea bölgesini ilhak etmek ve Yahudileştirmekti
↑  Ben-Sasson, H.H. (1976). A History of the Jewish People. Harvard University Press. s. 226. ISBN 0-674-39731-2. The expansion of Hasmonean Judea took place gradually. Under Jonathan, Judea annexed southern Samaria and began to expand in the direction of the coast plain... The main ethnic changes were the work of John Hyrcanus... it was in his days and those of his son Aristobulus that the annexation of Idumea, Samaria and Galilee and the consolidation of Jewish settlement in Trans-Jordan was completed. Alexander Jannai, continuing the work of his predecessors, expanded Judean rule to the entire coastal plain, from the Carmel to the Egyptian border... and to additional areas in Trans-Jordan, including some of the Greek cities there.
↑  Smith, Morton (1999),  Sturdy, John; Davies, W. D.; Horbury, William (Ed.), "The Gentiles in Judaism 125 BCE - 66 CE", The Cambridge History of Judaism: Volume 3: The Early Roman Period, The Cambridge History of Judaism, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 3, ss. 192-249, doi:10.1017/chol9780521243773.008, ISBN 978-0-521-24377-3, erişim tarihi: 20 Mart 2023, These changes accompanied and were partially caused by the great extension of the Judaeans' contacts with the peoples around them. Many historians have chronicled the Hasmonaeans' territorial acquisitions. In sum, it took them twenty-five years to win control of the tiny territory of Judaea and get rid of the Seleucid colony of royalist Jews (with, presumably, gentile officials and garrison) in Jerusalem. [...] However, in the last years before its fall, the Hasmonaeans were already strong enough to acquire, partly by negotiation, partly by conquest, a little territory north and south of Judaea and a corridor on the west to the coast at Jaffa/Joppa. This was briefly taken from them by Antiochus Sidetes, but soon regained, and in the half century from Sidetes' death in 129 to Alexander Jannaeus' death in 76 they overran most of Palestine and much of western and northern Transjordan. First John Hyrcanus took over the hills of southern and central Palestine (Idumaea and the territories of Shechem, Samaria and Scythopolis) in 128–104; then his son, Aristobulus I, took Galilee in 104–103, and Aristobulus' brother and successor, Jannaeus, in about eighteen years of warfare (103–96, 86–76) conquered and reconquered the coastal plain, the northern Negev, and western edge of Transjordan.
↑  Ben-Eliyahu, Eyal (30 Nisan 2019). Identity and Territory: Jewish Perceptions of Space in Antiquity. Univ of California Press. s. 13. ISBN 978-0-520-29360-1. OCLC 1103519319. From the beginning of the Second Temple period until the Muslim conquest—the land was part of imperial space. This was true from the early Persian period, as well as the time of Ptolemy and the Seleucids. The only exception was the Hasmonean Kingdom, with its sovereign Jewish rule—first over Judah and later, in Alexander Jannaeus's prime, extending to the coast, the north, and the eastern banks of the Jordan.