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The Seleucids (198–165 B.C.). To facilitate their rule of the land, the Seleucids divided Palestine into five provinces: Judea, Samaria, Galilee, Perea, and Trachonitis. We will say more about
these and other divisions later.

The period of Syrian rule was the darkest in the history of Judaism. The principal villain was Antiochus IV, also known as Antiochus Epiphanes. F. LaGard Smith labeled him “one of the cruelest men ever to hold public office.

The Seleucids (198–165 B.C.). To facilitate their rule of the land, the Seleucids divided Palestine...

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