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Historical person
c. 215–164 BCE
Antiochus IV Epiphanes was the Seleucid king whose intervention in Judaea and suppression of Jewish observance helped provoke the Maccabean revolt.
The person is linked because Angela Hunt portrays this figure under a biblical or historical identity. Private speech, emotional motives and undocumented relationships in the novel are imaginative reconstruction; for biblical figures, chronology and the degree of independent historical corroboration may remain uncertain.
Series
The Silent Years explores Jewish life between the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament, moving from Cleopatra’s Egypt through the Maccabean revolt and Hasmonean monarchy to the court of Herod the Great. Fictional witnesses and historical rulers reveal a period of Greek and Roman power, dynastic conflict and…
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