04021nam 2200721Ia 450 991080945340332120240430171742.01-281-99081-797866119908173-11-021120-310.1515/9783110211207(CKB)1000000000697843(EBL)429406(OCoLC)567903862(SSID)ssj0000285916(PQKBManifestationID)11912639(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000285916(PQKBWorkID)10319900(PQKB)10334626(MiAaPQ)EBC429406(DE-B1597)35294(OCoLC)1013941577(OCoLC)775643929(DE-B1597)9783110211207(Au-PeEL)EBL429406(CaPaEBR)ebr10275915(CaONFJC)MIL199081(EXLCZ)99100000000069784320080902d2008 uy 0engur||#||||||||txtccr2 Maccabees /Daniel R. Schwartz1st ed.Berlin ;New York Walter de Gruyterc20081 online resource (628 p.)Commentaries on early Jewish literature (CEJL)Includes an English translation of the text of 2nd Maccabees.3-11-019118-0 Includes bibliographical references (p. 102-126) and indexes.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) --Backmatter2 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 forCommentaries on early Jewish literature.RELIGION / Judaism / GeneralbisacshJerusalemHistoryApocrypha.Hellenism/Jewish Hellenism/Hellenistic Judaism.Jewish history.Maccabees.Martyrdom.RELIGION / Judaism / General.229/.73077BC 4250rvkSchwartz Daniel R221666MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK99108094534033212 Maccabees4034693UNINA