This is a list of intra-
Israelite conflicts.
Biblical period
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Eli-Pincus conflict (approx 1400 BCE) – a civil war broke out between Eli son of Yafni, of the line of Ithamar, and the sons of Pincus (
Phinehas), because Eli son of Yafni resolved to usurp the High Priesthood from the descendants of Pincus.
Second Temple and Roman period
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Hasmonean-Samaritan conflict (113–110 BCE) – Beginning in 113 BCE, Hyrcanus began an extensive military campaign against Samaria. Ultimately, Samaria was overrun and totally destroyed. The inhabitants of Samaria were then put into slavery.
[.] After these victories, Hyrcanus went north towards
Shechem and
Mount Gerizim
Mount Gerizim (; Samaritan Hebrew: ''ʾĀ̊rgā̊rīzēm''; Hebrew: ''Har Gərīzīm''; ar, جَبَل جَرِزِيم ''Jabal Jarizīm'' or جَبَلُ ٱلطُّورِ ''Jabal at-Ṭūr'') is one of two mountains in the immediate vicinit ...
. The city of Shechem was reduced to a village and the Samaritan Temple on Mount Gerizim was destroyed.
This military action against Shechem has been dated archaeologically around 111–110 BCE.
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Jewish-Samaritan conflict (1st century CE) – Under the leadership of two
Zealots, Eleazar and Alexander, they invaded Samaria and began a massacre. Cumanus led most of his troops against the militants, killing many and taking others prisoner, and the Jewish leaders from Jerusalem were subsequently able to calm most of the others, but a state of
guerrilla warfare
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persisted.
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Sicarii and Zealot rebels (6–73 CE) – Sicarii were a splinter group of the
Jewish
Zealots who used violence against Jews and Romans in the Roman province of Judea. Much of what is known about the Sicarii comes from the ''
Antiquities of the Jews
''Antiquities of the Jews'' ( la, Antiquitates Iudaicae; el, Ἰουδαϊκὴ ἀρχαιολογία, ''Ioudaikē archaiologia'') is a 20-volume historiographical work, written in Greek, by historian Flavius Josephus in the 13th year of the re ...
'' and ''
The Jewish War'' by
Josephus, who wrote that the Sicarii agreed to release the kidnapped secretary of Eleazar, governor of the Temple precincts, in exchange for the release of ten captured
assassins. The Sicarii were involved in the murder of
High Priest
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Ancient Egypt
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Jonathan
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*Jonathan (name), a masculine given name
Media
* ''Jonathan'' (1970 film), a German film directed by Hans W. Geißendörfer
* ''Jonathan'' (2016 film), a German film directed by Piotr J. Lewandowski
* ''Jonathan'' (2018 ...
and also committed a series of atrocities in an attempt to incite the population into war against Rome. In one account, given in the
Talmud, they destroyed the city's food supply, using starvation to force the people to fight against the Roman siege, instead of negotiating peace. Josephus also wrote that the Sicarii raided nearby Hebrew villages including
Ein Gedi, where they massacred 700 women and children.
*Persecution of
Ebionites and
Nazarenes (70 CE – 135 CE) –
Ebionites were in conflict with the Jewish followers of
Bar Kochba for refusing to recognize his messianic claims.
According to the
Haran Gawaita, Nasoraean Mandaeans fled
Jerusalem before its
fall in 70 CE due to persecution by a faction of
Jews.
[Buckley, Jorunn Jacobsen(2010). Turning the Tables on Jesus: The Mandaean View. In (pp94-11). Minneapolis: Fortress Press]
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