2 Maccabees / / Daniel R. Schwartz.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• VerfasserIn: Schwartz, Daniel R.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2008]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Commentaries on Early Jewish Literature ,
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (617 p.)

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.

Table of 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