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Subject(s)

• Bible Maccabees, 2nd—Commentaries [Browse]

Series

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

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 the values and interests of the Judaism of the Hellenistic diaspora that it reflects - which are often quite different from those represented by its competitor, 1 Maccabees."--BOOK JACKET.

Notes

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

Bibliographic references

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

Action note

Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)

Contents

• Subject, purpose and date
• Sources and development
• Historical worth and leading ideas
• Between the Bible and Greek literature
• Language and style
• Reception and text
• Literature
• Abbreviations and bibliography
• Translation and commentary
• Appendices
• Indices.

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Other title(s)

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

ISBN

• 9783110191189 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 3110191180 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC

247962464

RCP

H - S

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