Record Nr.

UNINA9910809453403321

Autore

Schwartz Daniel R

Titolo

2 Maccabees [[electronic resource] /] / Daniel R. Schwartz

Pubbl/distr/stampa


Berlin ; ; New York, : Walter de Gruyter, c2008

ISBN

1-281-99081-7

9786611990817

3-11-021120-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (628 p.)

Collana

Commentaries on early Jewish literature (CEJL)

Classificazione

BC 4250

Disciplina

229/.73077

Soggetti

RELIGION / Judaism / General

Jerusalem History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes an English translation of the text of 2nd Maccabees.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 102-126) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- I. Subject, Purpose and Date -- II. Sources and Development -- III. Historical Worth and Leading Ideas -- IV. Between the Bible and Greek Literature -- V. Language and Style -- VI. Reception and Text -- VII. Literature -- VIII. Abbreviations and Bibliography -- Translation and Commentary -- Introductory Letters (1:1-2:18) -- Author's Preface (2:19-32) -- Chapter III -- Chapter IV -- Chapter V -- Chapter VI -- Chapter VII -- Chapter VIII -- Chapter IX -- Chapter X -- Chapter XI -- Chapter XII -- Chapter XIII -- Chapter XIV -- Chapter XV -- Appendices -- Appendix 1: On the Letters in Chapters 1-2 -- Appendix 2: "to register the people of Jerusalem as Antiochenes" (4:9) -- Appendix 3: "his second invasion" (5:1) -- Appendix 4: "as the residents of the place requested" (6:2) -- Appendix 5: A Ptolemaic Account of Antiochus' Decrees? (2 Macc 6:7) -- Appendix 6: "the tribute (still owed) to the Romans" (2 Macc 8:10, 36) -- Appendix 7: The Battle Against the Galatians (8:20) -- Appendix 8: "their own foods" (11:31) -- Appendix 9: "to be his successor" (14:26) -- Appendix 10: "the Syrian Language" (15:36) -- Appendix 11: "and ever since the city was taken over by the Hebrews it has been in their hands" (15:37) -- Backmatter

Sommario/riassunto

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