31 Josephus, Ant. 12.149.
31Josephus, Ant. 12.149.
32M. Rostovtzeff, Social and Economic History of the Hellenistic World, I (Oxford, 1951), 492. See also, to the same effect, A. Schalit, “The Letter of Antiochus III to Zeuxis regarding the Establishment of Jewish Military Colonies in Phrygia and Lydia,” JQR 50 (1959-60), 289-318 (he dates the letter between 212 and 205 B.C.).
33Polybius, History 5.45ff.; 12.1, 24; 21.16, 24.
34See J. A. Goldstein, II Maccabees, AB (Garden City, N.Y., 1983), pp. 331-34.