Excerpt from History of the Jews, Vol. 2 The reign Of Hyrcanus is at once the pinnacle and the turning int of this period. He not only car ried on his ather's work, but com leted it. Under his predecessors Judma was confihed to a narrow space, and even within these hounds there were territories in the possession Of foreign foes. Hyr canus enlarged the boundaries to the north and to the south, and thus released the State from the exter nal pressure that had been restricting its growth. His genius for war was aided by fortunate Circum stances in bringing about these happy results. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.