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Subject(s)

• Jerusalem—History [Browse]
• Bible O.T. Apocrypha Maccabees, 2nd—Commentaries [Browse]

Series

• Commentaries on early Jewish literature. [More in this series]
• Commentaries on early Jewish literature (CEJL) [More in this series]

Subseries of

Commentaries on Early Jewish Literature

Summary note

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

Notes

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

Bibliographic references

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

Language note

English

Contents

• 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

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Other format(s)

Issued also in print.

Other title(s)

• Second Maccabees
• Two Maccabees
• Bible. Maccabees, 2nd. English. Schwartz. 2008.

ISBN

• 1-281-99081-7
• 9786611990817
• 3-11-021120-3

OCLC

• 567903862
• 1013941577
• 775643929

Doi

• 10.1515/9783110211207

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