2 Maccabees:
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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schwartz, Daniel R. 1952- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; New York, NY Walter de Gruyter [2008]
Series:Commentaries on early jewish literature (CEJL)
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Links:http://doi.org/10.1515/9783110211207
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110211207
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110211207
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110211207
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110211207
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110211207
http://doi.org/10.1515/9783110211207
Item Description: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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (X, 617 Seiten)
ISBN:9783110211207
DOI:10.1515/9783110211207