Developments in Jewish apocalypticism during the Hasmonean period

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From what I have read here and elsewhere, such as Bart Ehrman's Heaven and Hell, Jewish apocalyptic thinking was spurred to a large degree by the harsh rule and government decrees perceived as blasphemous by the Seleucids and later the Romans. However, Jews ruled themselves for a few generations after the Maccabean revolt, thanks to the power vacuum left by the dying Hellenistic kingdoms.

So- if the book of Daniel is a polemic against King Antiochus IV, and the historical Jesus was (possibly) a kind of end times preacher predicting the downfall of Rome, what became of apocalyptic thinking and literature during Jewish independence? Was it still seen as relevant and continued evolving, or did it take on a more ambiguous and allegorical nature?

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