Summary of Judean History

• 201/0 BC Antiochus III takes control of
  Jerusalem and gives gifts, privileges and autonomy to the temple-state of
  Jerusalem.

• Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews XII. 138-53 (Austin no.
  167)

• 189 BC Antiochus III defeated by Rome;
  excluded from Asia Minor

• 187-175 BC reign of Seleucus IV.
  His brother Antiochus (IV) kept hostage at Rome

• 175 BC Antiochus IV succeeds.

• 169 BC Antiochus IV first invasion of
  Egypt

• 168 BC Antiochus IV second invasion of
  Egypt. 

• Ordered
  to retreat by the Roman consul PopilliusLaenas (Polybius XXXIX.27)

• 167 BC Antiochus IV ‘forces’ non-Jewish
  religious observance on Jerusalem Jews

• 164 BC Pressure of Jewish revolt of
  Judas Maccabaeus compels Antiochus IV to rescind these measures. Jews recover
  control of Jerusalem

• 163-162 BC Antiochus V

• 162-150 BC Demetrius I