2 Maccabees / Daniel R. Schwartz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schwartz, Daniel R.

Series:

Commentaries on early Jewish literature.

Commentaries on early Jewish literature (CEJL)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. Maccabees, 2nd--Commentaries.

Bible.

Jerusalem--History.

Jerusalem.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (628 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Second Maccabees

Two Maccabees

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

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

Notes:

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

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

Contains:

Bible. Maccabees, 2nd. English. Schwartz. 2008.

ISBN:

9786611990817

9781281990815

1281990817

9783110211207

3110211203

OCLC:

567903862