• Ptolemy son of Abubus was an official in the early Hasmonean kingdom which then controlled Judea. According to the book of 1 Maccabees, in 135 BC, he served...
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  • Egyptian hermit Ptolemaeus of Commagene (201 BC - 130 BC), satrap and then first King of Commagene Ptolemy son of Abubus, governor of Jericho (c. 130s BC) who...
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    first King of Commagene Ptolemy (son of Abubus), governor of Jericho (ca. 130 BC) in the First Book of the Maccabees; instigated the death of Simon Maccabees;...
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    John Hyrcanus (category 2nd-century BCE High Priests of Israel)
    brothers were murdered by John's brother-in-law, Ptolemy son of Abubus. He attained his father's former offices of High Priest and ethnarch, but not king. Josephus...
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    son-in-law Ptolemy, son of Abubus (also spelled Abobus or Abobi), who had been named governor of the region by the Seleucids. Simon's eldest sons, Mattathias...
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  • reoccupation of Joppa (1 Maccabees 13:11), leading the people in peace and prosperity until he is murdered by agents of Ptolemy, son of Abubus, who had been...
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    Simon and two of his sons (Mattathias and Judas) were murdered by his son-in-law, Ptolemy son of Abubus, at a feast in Jericho. All five sons of Mattathias...
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    of Simon Thassi and two of his sons at the hands of Ptolemy son of Abubus in 177 SE. He is succeeded by his son John Hyrcanus. 134–104 BCE Reign of John...
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  • Biblical literalist chronology (category Christian theology of the Bible)
    dynastic histories of the Ptolemies in Egypt (the king of the south) and the Seleucids in Syria (the king of the north), the two divisions of the Hellenistic...
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    Limbo. Inf. IV, 142. Ptolemy son of Abubus: Official in the early Hasmonean kingdom which then controlled Judea. The third ring of Cocytus, where the treacherous...
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  • (ruler) of Judea, until 104 BC, following the murder of his father Simon Maccabaeus by Ptolemy the son of Abubus in 135 BC. On the advice of philosopher...
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  • (ruler) of Judea, until 104 BC, following the murder of his father Simon Maccabaeus by Ptolemy the son of Abubus in 135 BC. On the advice of philosopher...
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