Outside these old towns, the first Seleucids developed an important politics of city founding. |
This service had been interrupted by the Seleucids and all the oil in the Temple had been defiled. |
Paul, as a native of Asia Minor, would have been familiar with the Hellenistic colony-cities of Judean mercenaries founded by the Seleucids to control the local inhabitants. |
Seleucids had constructed ports in the Persian Gulf due to same intentions. |
The Seleucids echeloned their right cavalry wing forward to gain tactical advantage. |
The remarkable thing is that the Hasidim-Pharisees who were the fathers of the Talmud did not wish to record therein their war and the military victory against the Seleucids. |