Simon Macabee was a member of the Maccabee family, a descendant of Judas Maccabee, and the first king of the Hebrew Hasmonean Dynasty. He reigned from 142 to 135 BC.
The Hasmonean Dynasty was founded by a resolution, adopted in 141 BC, at a large assembly "of the priests and the people and of the elders of the land, to the effect that Simon should be their leader and high priest forever, until there should arise a faithful prophet" (I Macc. xiv. 41).
Recognition of the new dynasty by the Romans was accorded by the Senate about 139 BC, when the delegation of Simon was in Rome. Simon made the Jewish people semi-independent of the Seleucid Greeks.
In February 135 BC, he was assassinated at the instigation of his son-in-law Ptolemy. Simon was followed by his third son, John Hyrcanus, whose two elder brothers, Mattathias and Judah, had been murdered, together with their father.
Simon is now the greatest advocate (i.e., trial lawyer cum duelist) in Nexus, but he started as nothing but a scrappy revolutionary kid fighting the massed zombie regiments of the Empire of the Overmind....
Simon's group is the smallest, focusing on general interzonal law, criminal defense and trial by combat.
Simon has a great deal of general oversight of all cases and operations, being the most broadly educated and experienced partner as well as the majority owner.
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