This happened, Adler argues, under the 80-year rule of the Hasmonaeans, a family whose members are widely recognized as the last leaders of an independent Israel before Judea became a client state of ...
Early kingdoms of the area, such as the Nabataeans and Hasmonaeans, frequented the Dead Sea area, including Kallirhoe, or modern-day ‘Ain ez-Zara, to seek treatments at these thermal springs ...