Author: Daniel J. HarringtonPublisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 160899113X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
The Maccabean Revolt
Author: Daniel J. HarringtonPublisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 160899113X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
The Maccabean Revolt
Author: Daniel J. Harrington SJPublisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1725227010
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
The Maccabean
Author: The Books of the Maccabees: History, Theology, Ideology
Author: Géza XeravitsPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900415700X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
The volume contains essays on various problems of the early Jewish works: the Books of the Maccabees. Authors include renowned international specialists in the literature and thinking of early Judaism.
The Flourishing of Jewish Sects in the Maccabean Era
Author: Albert I. BaumgartenPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004107519
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
This volume asks why Jewish groups - Sadducees, Pharisees, Essenes and the Dead Sea Scroll sect - flourished during the Maccabean era. The objective is to discover the connections between context and consequence, which will explain why sectarianism was so prominent then.
Old Testament Pseudepigrapha
Author: Richard BauckhamPublisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 1467463361
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 848
Book Description
This work stands among the most important publications in biblical studies over the past twenty-five years. Richard Bauckham, James Davila, and Alexander Panayotov’s new two-volume collection of Old Testament pseudepigrapha contains many previously unpublished and newly translated texts, complementing James Charlesworth’s Old Testament Pseudepigrapha and other earlier collections. Including virtually all known surviving pseudepigrapha written before the rise of Islam, this volume, among other things, presents the sacred legends and spiritual reflections of numerous long-dead authors whose works were lost, neglected, or suppressed for many centuries. Excellent English translations along with authoritative yet accessible introductions bring those ancient documents to life for readers today.
The Middle Maccabees
Author: Andrea M. BerlinPublisher: SBL Press
ISBN: 0884145042
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
A focused, interdisciplinary examination of a tumultuous, history-making era The Middle Maccabees lays out the charged, complicated beginnings of the independent Jewish state founded in the second century BCE. Contributors offer focused analyses of the archaeological, epigraphic, numismatic, and textual evidence, framed within a wider world of conflicts between the Ptolemies of Egypt, the Seleucids of Syria, and the Romans. The result is a holistic view of the Hasmonean rise to power that acknowledges broader political developments, evolving social responses, and the particularities of local history. Contributors include Uzi ‘Ad, Donald T. Ariel, Andrea M. Berlin, Efrat Bocher, Altay Coşkun, Benedikt Eckhardt, Gerald Finkielsztejn, Christelle Fischer-Bovet, Yuval Gadot, Erich Gruen, Sylvie Honigman, Jutta Jokiranta, Paul J. Kosmin, Uzi Leibner, Catharine Lorber, Duncan E. MacRae, Dvir Raviv, Helena Roth, Débora Sandhaus, Yiftah Shalev, Nitsan Shalom, Danny Syon, Yehiel Zelinger, and Ayala Zilberstein. Features Up-to-date, generously illustrated essays analyzing the relevant archaeological remains A revised understanding of how local and imperial histories overlapped and intersected New analysis of the book of 1 Maccabees as a tool of Hasmonean strategic interest
Maccabee!
Author: Tilda BalsleyPublisher: Kar-Ben
ISBN: 0761362347
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Retelling of the story of Hanukkah, the festival that celebrates the victory of the Maccabees over the mighty armies of the Syrian king.
The Maccabees
Author: Elias Joseph BickermanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Maccabees
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
From the Maccabees to the Mishnah
Author: Shaye J. D. CohenPublisher: Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN: 9780664250171
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
This book explores the period from the 160s to 63 B.C.E., when the Maccabees ruled the Jews, up to the publication of the Mishnah in the second century C.E.