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1 online resource (x, 617 pages) |
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Commentaries on early Jewish literature (CEJL) |
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Commentaries on early Jewish literature.
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| Contents |
Subject, purpose and date -- Sources and development -- Historical worth and leading ideas -- Between the Bible and Greek literature -- Language and style -- Reception and text -- Literature -- Translation and commentary |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 102-126) and indexes |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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In English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| SUBJECT |
Bible. Maccabees, 2nd -- Commentaries
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Bible. Maccabees, 2nd fast |
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Bibel Makkabäer 2. gnd |
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Bibeln. G.T. Apokryferna. Mackabéerboken 2 -- kommentarer. sao |
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Makkabäer <Buch, II.> swd |
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Maccabees, 2nd -- Commentaries nli |
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Maccabees, 2nd -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. nli |
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RELIGION -- Biblical Studies.
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II Makkabeeën (bijbelboek)
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11.41 study and interpretation of the Old Testament.
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Jerusalem -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069905
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| Subject |
Middle East -- Jerusalem
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| Genre/Form |
Computer network resources
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Commentaries
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History
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Kommentar.
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Commentaries (form)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2008038566 |
| ISBN |
9783110211207 |
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3110211203 |
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9786611990817 |
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661199081X |
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