. "20,000 Edomite men" . . "confrontation" . . "Edomites" . "Judean Provisional Government" . "brutal civil war" . "6,000 men" . "*Sadducees" . . "besieged the Temple" . "Zealot Temple Siege" . . "Confrontation" . "series of sieges and raids" . . . "Unknown number of Zealots" . . . "murdering one another" . . . . "Zealot Temple Siege" . "Zealots" . "*Pharisees" . . "Siege of Temple by forces of Hanan ben Hanan fails; Siege of Jerusalem by Edomites reinforcing Zealots succeeds." . . . "Unknown" . "----" .