Editing Hasmonean dynasty (section)

===Influence on Jewish religious attitudes and practice===
Since the 1990s, a growing body of research has explored several major changes in Jewish ideas and practice during the Hasmonean period. [[Shaye J. D. Cohen]]'s 1999 book, ''The Beginnings of Jewishness'' posited that Jewish identity first began to transcend the Judean nationality and become a religious identity only in the late 2nd century BCE, when the Hasmoneans began conquering and converting neighboring peoples to Judaism.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Adler |first1=Yonatan |title=The Origins of Judaism: An Archaeological-Historical Reappraisal |date=15 November 2022 |publisher=Yale University Press |isbn=978-0-300-26837-9 |page=14 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k8KREAAAQBAJ |access-date=10 November 2024 |language=en}}</ref> [[Reinhard Gregor Kratz]]'s 2013 book ''Historisches und Biblisches Israel'' (published in English in 2015 as ''Historical and Biblical Israel'') argued that "biblical" and "non-biblical" Israelite/Jewish traditions existed for centuries in antiquity, with biblical Judaism only becoming predominant under the Hasmoneans.<ref>Adler (2002), p. 17.</ref> [[John J. Collins]]'s 2017 book, ''The Invention of Judaism'', identified the mid-2nd century BCE as the first time in which contemporary literature is focused on specific questions of Jewish law (''[[halakha]]'').<ref>Adler (2002), p. 16.</ref> Finally, Yonatan Adler's 2022 book, ''[[The Origins of Judaism (book)|The Origins of Judaism]]'' presented archaeological evidence that many standard Jewish religious practices—such as ''[[kashrut]]'' and maintaining [[tumah and taharah|ritual purity]]—were not commonly observed before Hasmonean rule.<ref>{{cite news |last=Lawler |first=Andrew |title=Is Judaism a Younger Religion Than Previously Thought? |url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/is-judaism-a-younger-religion-than-previously-thought-180981118/ |access-date=26 October 2024 |work=Smithsonian Magazine |date=15 November 2022 |language=en}}</ref>

Since late in the 19th century, many scholars argued that there was an increase in the use of Hebrew language during the Hasmonean period. Indeed this idea finds both literary and archaeological support in recent scholarship.<ref name="a988">{{cite journal | last=Machiela | first=Daniel A. | last2=Jones | first2=Robert | title=Was there a Revival of Hebrew during the Hasmonean Period?: A Reassessment of the Evidence | journal=Journal of Ancient Judaism | volume=12 | issue=2 | date=2021-06-02 | issn=1869-3296 | doi=10.30965/21967954-12340022 | pages=217–280}}</ref>