The Middle Maccabees

Author : Andrea M. Berlin,Paul J. Kosmin
Publisher : SBL Press
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780884145042

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The Middle Maccabees by Andrea M. Berlin,Paul J. Kosmin Pdf

A focused, interdisciplinary examination of a tumultuous, history-making era The Middle Maccabees lays out the charged, complicated beginnings of the independent Jewish state founded in the second century BCE. Contributors offer focused analyses of the archaeological, epigraphic, numismatic, and textual evidence, framed within a wider world of conflicts between the Ptolemies of Egypt, the Seleucids of Syria, and the Romans. The result is a holistic view of the Hasmonean rise to power that acknowledges broader political developments, evolving social responses, and the particularities of local history. Contributors include Uzi ‘Ad, Donald T. Ariel, Andrea M. Berlin, Efrat Bocher, Altay Coşkun, Benedikt Eckhardt, Gerald Finkielsztejn, Christelle Fischer-Bovet, Yuval Gadot, Erich Gruen, Sylvie Honigman, Jutta Jokiranta, Paul J. Kosmin, Uzi Leibner, Catharine Lorber, Duncan E. MacRae, Dvir Raviv, Helena Roth, Débora Sandhaus, Yiftah Shalev, Nitsan Shalom, Danny Syon, Yehiel Zelinger, and Ayala Zilberstein. Features Up-to-date, generously illustrated essays analyzing the relevant archaeological remains A revised understanding of how local and imperial histories overlapped and intersected New analysis of the book of 1 Maccabees as a tool of Hasmonean strategic interest

Author : George J. Brooke,Renate Smithuis
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004347762

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Jewish Education from Antiquity to the Middle Ages by George J. Brooke,Renate Smithuis Pdf

In Jewish Education from Antiquity to the Middle Ages there are fifteen tightly themed specialist studies that discuss individual texts, wider literary corpora, and various related themes to set a new agenda for the study of Jewish education.

Author : Daniel R. Schwartz
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 629 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2008-12-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110211207

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2 Maccabees by Daniel R. Schwartz Pdf

2 Maccabees is a Jewish work composed during the 2nd century BCE and preserved by the Church. Written in Hellenistic Greek and told from a Jewish-Hellenistic perspective, 2 Maccabees narrates and interprets the ups and downs of events that took place in Jerusalem prior to and during the Maccabean revolt: institutionalized Hellenization and the foundation of Jerusalem as a polis; the persecution of Jews by Antiochus Epiphanes, accompanied by famous martyrdoms; and the rebellion against Seleucid rule by Judas Maccabaeus. 2 Maccabees is an important source both for the events it describes and for the values and interests of the Judaism of the Hellenistic diaspora that it reflects - which are often quite different from those represented by its competitor, 1 Maccabees.

Author : Elias J Bickerman
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004667587

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The God of the Maccabees by Elias J Bickerman Pdf

Author : Shaye J. D. Cohen
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1987-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0664250173

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From the Maccabees to the Mishnah by Shaye J. D. Cohen Pdf

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.

Author : Alicia J. Batton
Publisher : SBL Press
Page : 601 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781628373479

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Review of Biblical Literature, 2023 by Alicia J. Batton Pdf

The annual Review of Biblical Literature presents a selection of reviews of the most recent books in biblical studies and related fields, including topical monographs, multi-author volumes, reference works, commentaries, and dictionaries. RBL reviews German, French, Italian, and English books and offers reviews in those languages.

Author : David C. Carson
Publisher : David C. Carson
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1432701657

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Maccabee by David C. Carson Pdf

The year is 167 BCE. The bloodthirsty Syrian king Antiochus IV has reneged on the promise of religious freedom made to the Jews by his forebear Alexander the Great. Antiochus sets out to abolish every semblance of Jewish religion and culture, replacing it with the revered ways of the Greeks. Hundreds are slaughtered in the courts of the temple as they resist the king s desecration of their altar. Antiochus changes the face of Jerusalem, erecting a gymnasium where the men follow the common Greek practice of exercising nude. Many of the young Jewish men betray their heritage by having their circumcisions surgically reversed to hide their distinction as Jews. One elderly priest determines it would be better to die than see their nation thus corrupted. With his five sons, Mattathias ben Hasmoneus launches a guerilla war against the hated Syrians. Judas, his middle son, proves to be the genius in battle and becomes known throughout Judea as the Maccabee, the hammer. As Judas leads the nation in the struggle for freedom, one of his continuing motivations is love for the woman promised him since childhood but who has been caught in the midst of the conflict. Only when Jerusalem is delivered from the Syrians can she become his. Maccabee draws extensively on the ancient writings of Josephus and the apocryphal works 1 and 2 Maccabees. An additional chapter has been placed at the end of Maccabee,Author s Historical Notes, for those interested in separating the fiction from the actual events.

Author : Henry Cotton
Publisher : Ravenio Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Five Books of Maccabees in English by Henry Cotton Pdf

The Five Books of Maccabees in English is a comprehensive collection of the Maccabean texts, which chronicle the heroic struggle of the Jewish people against oppression and their fight for religious freedom. This volume brings together all five books, offering a complete account of the Maccabean Revolt and its aftermath. Henry Cotton's translation provides readers with an accessible and engaging introduction to these significant historical and religious texts.

Author : Benjamin Z. Kedar,Jonathan Phillips,Jonathan Riley-Smith
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351985758

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Crusades by Benjamin Z. Kedar,Jonathan Phillips,Jonathan Riley-Smith Pdf

Crusades covers seven hundred years from the First Crusade (1095-1102) to the fall of Malta (1798) and draws together scholars working on theatres of war, their home fronts and settlements from the Baltic to Africa and from Spain to the Near East and on theology, law, literature, art, numismatics and economic, social, political and military history. Routledge publishes this journal for The Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East. Particular attention is given to the publication of historical sources in all relevant languages - narrative, homiletic and documentary - in trustworthy editions, but studies and interpretative essays are welcomed too. Crusades appears in both print and online editions. Issue 4 of Crusades kicks off with Graham Loud's reflections on the failure of the Second Crusade and also features Susan Edgington's administrative regulations for the Hospital of St John in Jerusalem dating from the 1180s.

Author : John R. Bartlett
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1998-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567620002

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1 Maccabees by John R. Bartlett Pdf

This is a book for anyone interested in the political and cultural results of the entry of the small state of Judah and its capital Jerusalem into the wider Hellenistic world in the second century BCE. In particular it forms a helpful introduction to the biblical writing called 1 Maccabees, which is preserved in the Apocrypha. 1 Maccabees is a history of the rebellion of the Jews against their Syrian rulers in the 160s BCE. The rebellion's leader was Judas Maccabee, and from his family and its success sprang a dynasty that ruled Judah for the century before the arrival of Herod the Great. The author of 1 Maccabees was a keen supporter of that dynasty, and saw their early rulers as made in the mould of the early kings of Israel. The present book introduces the student to modern scholarly research on 1 Maccabees and its author.

Author : Bradley Hurt Alford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1913
Category : Bible
ISBN : UOM:39015001005944

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Jewish History and Literature Under the Maccabees and Herod by Bradley Hurt Alford Pdf

Author : John D. Grainger
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781781599464

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The Wars of the Maccabees by John D. Grainger Pdf

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 : Philip S. Alexander,David A. deSilva
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781467454148

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Eerdmans Commentary on the Bible: First & Second Maccabees by Philip S. Alexander,David A. deSilva Pdf

This extract from the Eerdmans Commentary on the Bible provides Alexander and deSilva’s introduction to and concise commentary on First and Second Maccabees. The Eerdmans Commentary on the Bible presents, in nontechnical language, the best of modern scholarship on each book of the Bible, including the Apocrypha. Reader-friendly commentary complements succinct summaries of each section of the text and will be valuable to scholars, students, and general readers. Rather than attempt a verse-by-verse analysis, these volumes work from larger sense units, highlighting the place of each passage within the overarching biblical story. Commentators focus on the genre of each text—parable, prophetic oracle, legal code, and so on—interpreting within the historical and literary context. The volumes also address major issues within each biblical book—including the range of possible interpretations—and refer readers to the best resources for further discussions.

Author : David deSilva
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2006-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789047408512

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4 Maccabees by David deSilva Pdf

This commentary examines 4 Maccabees as a contribution to the ongoing reformulation of Jewish identity and practice in the Greek-speaking Diaspora. It analyzes the Jewish author’s interaction with, and facility in, Greek rhetorical conventions, ethical philosophy, and literary culture, giving attention also to his use and interpretation of texts and traditions from the Jewish Scriptures and other Hellenistic Jewish writings. The commentary exhibits the author’s skillful weaving together of all these resources to create a text that interprets the Torah-observant life as the fullest embodiment of the best Greek ethical ideals. A distinctive feature is the examination of how the experience of reading 4 Maccabees in Codex Sinaiticus differs from the experience of reading the eclectic text.

Author : Annesley William Streane
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Apocryphal books (Old Testament)
ISBN : UOM:39015065487590

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The Age of the Maccabees by Annesley William Streane Pdf