Event from 63 BCE
Citations (1)
- A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years pp. 83-88 · open book
At that stage, Rome was far away, a possible ally against the hated Seleucids, and relations remained friendly for about a century, until the Romans invaded Judaea in 63 BCE as part of their mopping-up operations around the conquest of their real prizes, the Seleucid and Egyptian empires.