2 Maccabees / / Daniel R. Schwartz.
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 re...
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Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2008] ©2008 |
Year of Publication: | 2008 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Commentaries on Early Jewish Literature ,
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (617 p.) |
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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