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Author | : Sylvie Honigman |
Publisher | : University of California Press |
Total Pages | : 570 |
Release | : 2021-03-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520383141 |
In the wake of the conquests of Alexander the Great, the ancient world of the Bible—the ancient Near East—came under Greek rule, and in the land of Israel, time-old traditions met Greek culture. But with the accession of King Antiochos IV, the soft power of culture was replaced with armed conflict, and soon the Jews rebelled against their imperial masters, as recorded in the Biblical books of the Maccabees. Whereas most scholars have dismissed the biblical accounts of religious persecution and cultural clash, Sylvie Honigman combines subtle literary analysis with deep historical insight to show how their testimony can be reconciled with modern historical analysis by conversing with the biblical authors, so to speak, in their own language to understand the ways they described their experiences. Honigman contends that these stories are not mere fantasies but genuine attempts to cope with the massacre that followed the rebellion by giving it new meaning. This reading also discloses fresh political and economic factors.
Author | : Daniel J. Harrington |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 143 |
Release | : 2009-11-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 160899113X |
Author | : Daniel J. Harrington SJ |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 142 |
Release | : 2009-11-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1725227010 |
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Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1882 |
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Author | : Géza Xeravits |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 900415700X |
The volume contains essays on various problems of the early Jewish works: the Books of the Maccabees. Authors include renowned international specialists in the literature and thinking of early Judaism.
Author | : Albert I. Baumgarten |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9789004107519 |
This volume asks why Jewish groups - Sadducees, Pharisees, Essenes and the Dead Sea Scroll sect - flourished during the Maccabean era. The objective is to discover the connections between context and consequence, which will explain why sectarianism was so prominent then.
Author | : John D. Grainger |
Publisher | : Casemate Publishers |
Total Pages | : 406 |
Release | : 2012-03-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1781599467 |
By the early second century BC, Israel had long been under the rule of the Hellenistic Seleucid Empire. But the policy of deliberate Hellenization and suppression of Jewish religious practices by Antiochus IV, sparked a revolt in 167 BC which was led initially by Judah Maccabee and later by his brothers and their descendants. Relying on guerrilla tactics the growing insurrection repeatedly took on the sophisticated might of the Seleucid army with mixed, but generally successful, results, establishing the Maccabees as the Hasmonean Dynasty of rulers over a once-more independent Israel. (It is Judah Maccabee's ritual cleansing of the Temple after his victories over the Seleucids that is celebrated by Jews every year at Hannukah). Internal disputes weakened the revived state, however, and it eventually fell victim to the Romans who replaced the Seleucids as the local superpower. John D Grainger explains the causes of the revolt and traces the course of the various campaigns of the Maccabees, first against the Seleucids and then the Romans who captured Jerusalem in 63BC and partitioned the kingdom. The last chapters consider the continued Jewish resistance to Roman rule and factional fighting, until the crowning of Herod, marked the end of the Hasmonean dynasty.
Author | : Jan Willem van Henten |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2021-11-22 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9004497544 |
This volume deals with the presentation of the so-called Maccabean martyrs and the elder Razis in 2 and 4 Maccabees, discussing the religious, the political as well as the philosophical aspects of noble death in these writings. It argues that the theme of martyrdom is a very important part of the self-image of the Jews as presented by the authors of both works. Eleazar, the anonymous mother with her seven sons and Razis should, therefore, be considered heroes of the Jewish people. The first part of the book discusses the sources and the second part deals with the descriptions of noble death. This section of the book also offers extensive discussions of related non-Jewish traditions which highlight the political-patriotic dimension of noble death as described in 2 and 4 Maccabees.
Author | : Tilda Balsley |
Publisher | : Kar-Ben |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 2010-08-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0761362347 |
Retelling of the story of Hanukkah, the festival that celebrates the victory of the Maccabees over the mighty armies of the Syrian king.
Author | : Shaye J. D. Cohen |
Publisher | : Westminster John Knox Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1987-01-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780664250171 |
This book explores the period from the 160s to 63 B.C.E., when the Maccabees ruled the Jews, up to the publication of the Mishnah in the second century C.E.