LEADER 04021nam 2200721Ia 450 001 9910809453403321 005 20240430171742.0 010 $a1-281-99081-7 010 $a9786611990817 010 $a3-11-021120-3 024 7 $a10.1515/9783110211207 035 $a(CKB)1000000000697843 035 $a(EBL)429406 035 $a(OCoLC)567903862 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000285916 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11912639 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000285916 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10319900 035 $a(PQKB)10334626 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC429406 035 $a(DE-B1597)35294 035 $a(OCoLC)1013941577 035 $a(OCoLC)775643929 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783110211207 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL429406 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10275915 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL199081 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000697843 100 $a20080902d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||#|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$a2 Maccabees /$fDaniel R. Schwartz 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aBerlin ;$aNew York $cWalter de Gruyter$dc2008 215 $a1 online resource (628 p.) 225 1 $aCommentaries on early Jewish literature (CEJL) 300 $aIncludes an English translation of the text of 2nd Maccabees. 311 $a3-11-019118-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 102-126) and indexes. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tTable of Contents --$tIntroduction --$tI. Subject, Purpose and Date --$tII. Sources and Development --$tIII. Historical Worth and Leading Ideas --$tIV. Between the Bible and Greek Literature --$tV. Language and Style --$tVI. Reception and Text --$tVII. Literature --$tVIII. Abbreviations and Bibliography --$tTranslation and Commentary --$tIntroductory Letters (1:1-2:18) --$tAuthor's Preface (2:19-32) --$tChapter III --$tChapter IV --$tChapter V --$tChapter VI --$tChapter VII --$tChapter VIII --$tChapter IX --$tChapter X --$tChapter XI --$tChapter XII --$tChapter XIII --$tChapter XIV --$tChapter XV --$tAppendices --$tAppendix 1: On the Letters in Chapters 1-2 --$tAppendix 2: "to register the people of Jerusalem as Antiochenes" (4:9) --$tAppendix 3: "his second invasion" (5:1) --$tAppendix 4: "as the residents of the place requested" (6:2) --$tAppendix 5: A Ptolemaic Account of Antiochus' Decrees? (2 Macc 6:7) --$tAppendix 6: "the tribute (still owed) to the Romans" (2 Macc 8:10, 36) --$tAppendix 7: The Battle Against the Galatians (8:20) --$tAppendix 8: "their own foods" (11:31) --$tAppendix 9: "to be his successor" (14:26) --$tAppendix 10: "the Syrian Language" (15:36) --$tAppendix 11: "and ever since the city was taken over by the Hebrews it has been in their hands" (15:37) --$tBackmatter 330 $a2 Maccabees is a Jewish work composed during the 2nd century BCE and preserved by the Church. Written in Hellenistic Greek and told from a Jewish-Hellenistic perspective, 2 Maccabees narrates and interprets the ups and downs of events that took place in Jerusalem prior to and during the Maccabean revolt: institutionalized Hellenization and the foundation of Jerusalem as a polis; the persecution of Jews by Antiochus Epiphanes, accompanied by famous martyrdoms; and the rebellion against Seleucid rule by Judas Maccabaeus. 2 Maccabees is an important source both for the events it describes and for 410 0$aCommentaries on early Jewish literature. 606 $aRELIGION / Judaism / General$2bisacsh 607 $aJerusalem$xHistory 610 $aApocrypha. 610 $aHellenism/Jewish Hellenism/Hellenistic Judaism. 610 $aJewish history. 610 $aMaccabees. 610 $aMartyrdom. 615 7$aRELIGION / Judaism / General. 676 $a229/.73077 686 $aBC 4250$2rvk 700 $aSchwartz$b Daniel R$0221666 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910809453403321 996 $a2 Maccabees$94034693 997 $aUNINA