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English summary: The Battle of Panium (Banias) in 200 BC and the ultimate establishment of Seleucid rule under Antioch III in Syrio-Palestine marks the beginning of a transitional epoch that is characterized by the increasingly manifest rise of Rome to a great power, gathering momentum up until the capture of Jerusalem in 63 BC by Pompeius. For Jerusalem and Judea, this was a period of Hasmonean rule and, viewed from the outside, a phase of (relative) autonomy. This contested regime, how it ensued from the Maccabean battles, and its antecedent history at the end of the 3rd century BC, played a decisive role for the various struggles over the potentials and limits of Jewish identity in the face of hellenization. These struggles found expression not only socially in the formation of different groups, but also in literature. Against this historical background, the contributions to this anthology examine the development of Judaism in the Hebrew Bible, the size and substance of which became increasingly stable in this period, in the Septuagint, large parts of which were produced at this time, and in the Dead Sea Scrolls. German text. German description: Mit der Schlacht bei Paneion (Banjas) 200 v. Chr. und der endgultigen Etablierung der Seleukidenherrschaft unter Antiochus III. in Syrien-Palastina beginnt eine Epoche des Ubergangs, die durch den immer deutlicher werdenden Aufstieg Roms zur Grossmacht gepragt ist und deren Dynamik mit der Einnahme Jerusalems durch Pompeius 63 v. Chr. ihren Abschluss erfahrt. Fur Jerusalem und Juda umfasst dieser Zeitraum die Hasmonaer-herrschaft und damit ausserlich betrachtet eine Phase (relativer) Autonomie. Diese umstrittene Herrschaft, ihr Zustandekommen in den Makkabaerkampfen und ihre Vorgeschichte im ausgehenden 3. Jh. v. Chr. spielen fur das vielgestaltige Ringen um die Moglich-keiten und Grenzen judischer Identitat angesichts des Hellenismus eine entscheidende Rolle. Dieses Ringen aussert sich nicht nur sozial in