2 Maccabees
2 Maccabees (Commentaries on Early Jewish Literature)
Schwartz, Daniel R.,
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110191180
DDC: 229.73077
Edition: Hardcover; 2008-09-15
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 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.
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