1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910136035503321

Autore

Chrubasik Boris

Titolo

Kings and usurpers in the seleukid empire : the men who would be king / / Boris Chrubasik

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2016

ISBN

0-19-182905-6

0-19-109060-3

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white)

Collana

Oxford Classical Monographs

Disciplina

935.062

Soggetti

Maccabees

Greeks - Turkey - History

Seleucids - History

Syria History 333 B.C.-634 A.D

Syria Kings and rulers

Syria Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

This edition previously issued in print: 2016.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume focuses on ideas of kingship and power in the Seleukid Empire, specifically the role of usurpers. Redefining the king as only one of several political players, it advances a political history predicated on social power and argues that despite its strong rulers the empire was structurally weak and the position of its kings precarious.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910154728703321

Autore

Lightstone Jack N

Titolo

Society, the sacred, and scripture in ancient Judaism : a sociology of knowledge / / Jack N. Lightstone

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Waterloo, Ont., Canada, : Published for the Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion by Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1988

ISBN

9786613810519

9781282232778

1282232770

9780889207271

0889207275

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (143 p.)

Collana

Studies in Christianity and Judaism = Etudes sur le christianisme et le judasme ; ; 3

Disciplina

296.1/2067

Soggetti

Rabbinical literature - History and criticism

Judaism - History - To 70 A.D

Judaism - History - Talmudic period, 10-425

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 107-120) and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; Preface; Transliterations; Chapter One: Introduction; Chapter Two: The ""Restoration"" Community and the ""Torah of Moses""; Chapter Three: Diaspora, Sources of the Sacred, and Torah as Holy Relic; Chapter Four: Earliest Rabbinic Circles, Mishnah, and Scripture as Closed System; Chapter Five: Talmudic Rabbinism, Midrash, and the Fragmentation of Scripture; Notes; Selected Bibliography and Abbreviations; General Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

This work explores the relationship between religion, social patterns, and the perception of the character of scripture in four modes of Ancient Judaism: (1) the Jerusalem community of the fifth to fourth centuries B.C.E. (ie, the Early Second Temple Period); (2) the Judaism of the Graeco-Roman Disapora down to the end of the fourth century of the Christian Era; (3) earliest rabbinic Judaism in the second century C.E> in the land of Israel; (4) Late Antique Talmudic Rabbinism, primarily inn Babylonia, down to the sixth century of the Christian Era. Lightstone



attempts not only to describe