For other people with this name see Aristobulus (disambiguation)Judah (Yehudah Heb. יהודה) Aristobulus I (reigned 104–103 BC) the first ruler of the Hebrew Hasmonean Dynasty to call himself king was the eldest of the five sons of John Hyrcanus the previous leader. Josephus would declare him the first Jew in 481 years to “wear the diadem on his head” (Ant. xiii 301).
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