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  "id": "hasmonean-civil-war",
  "era": "between-testaments",
  "order": 290,
  "title": "Rival Hasmonean brothers contest Jerusalem",
  "group": "rome-herod",
  "date": {
    "kind": "approximate",
    "label": "c. 67–63 BC · Dynastic conflict",
    "earliest": -67,
    "latest": -63
  },
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    31.776667
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  "pinConfidence": "Identified site",
  "pinPlace": "openbible-a15257a",
  "summary": "Hyrcanus II and Aristobulus II struggle for power after Queen Alexandra’s death. Rival appeals draw outside powers into the conflict.",
  "context": "Hyrcanus II is distinct from the earlier John Hyrcanus. Internal conflict helps explain the approach to Roman intervention, without making that intervention inevitable or welcome to every community.",
  "question": "How can a succession dispute change a community’s relationship with neighboring powers?",
  "sourceNote": "Historical background. The sources below open externally; they are separate from the app’s bundled Bible text. Related Bible passages provide comparison or later context.",
  "historicalSources": [
    {
      "label": "Josephus, Antiquities 14.1–3",
      "url": "https://penelope.uchicago.edu/josephus/ant-14.html",
      "note": "Narrates the rival claims and appeals before Pompey’s intervention. Written in the first century AD, looking back on these events."
    },
    {
      "label": "IAA: historical timeline",
      "url": "https://www.deadseascrolls.org.il/learn-about-the-scrolls/historical-timeline?locale=en_US",
      "note": "Dates the civil war to 67–63 BC."
    }
  ],
  "locationNote": "Jerusalem locates the contested center, not a precise battle position or negotiating room.",
  "relatedNote": "These Bible readings are connected by theme or later setting; they are not direct accounts of this historical stop.",
  "passages": [],
  "related": [
    {
      "range": [
        5017014,
        5017020
      ],
      "kind": "teaching",
      "note": "The Torah’s teaching on royal restraint offers a comparison for dynastic ambitions.",
      "reference": "Deuteronomy 17:14–20",
      "translation": "bsb",
      "url": "https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy%2017%3A14%E2%80%9320&version=BSB"
    }
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      "id": "openbible-a15257a",
      "name": "Jerusalem",
      "coordinate": [
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      "confidence": "Identified site",
      "confidenceSource": "editorial",
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "OpenBible.info: Jerusalem (CC BY 4.0)",
          "url": "https://www.openbible.info/geo/ancient/a15257a/jerusalem"
        }
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    }
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  "further": [
    {
      "label": "OpenBible.info: Jerusalem (CC BY 4.0)",
      "url": "https://www.openbible.info/geo/ancient/a15257a/jerusalem"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "sources": [
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        "name": "editorial",
        "ref": "content/authored/between-testaments.json"
      }
    ],
    "review": "draft"
  },
  "eraName": "Between the Testaments",
  "interactiveUrl": "https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/?event=hasmonean-civil-war",
  "attribution": [
    "Place coordinates from OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data, CC BY 4.0.",
    "Teaching stops, summaries and regional extents are original editorial content of this atlas.",
    "Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain. https://berean.bible/licensing.htm"
  ],
  "translation": "bsb",
  "url": "https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/reference/events/hasmonean-civil-war/",
  "markdownUrl": "https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/reference/events/hasmonean-civil-war/index.md",
  "jsonUrl": "https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/reference/events/hasmonean-civil-war/index.json",
  "cautions": "Narrative order is a reading arrangement, not a proven chronology. Dates retain their stated uncertainty. An identified locality does not establish the exact venue or prove an event. Region extents and routes are illustrative, not surveyed boundaries or ancient roads. Draft material has not completed editorial review.",
  "revision": "9791ead8564332db"
}