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II Maccabees / a new translation with introduction and commentary by Jonathan A. Goldstein.

Contributor(s): Language: English Original language: Undetermined Series: Bible ; v. 41A.Publication details: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1983.Edition: 1st edDescription: xxiii, 595 pages : 9 maps ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0385048645
  • 9780385048644
Uniform titles:
  • Bible. Maccabees, 2nd. English. Goldstein. 1983.
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 220.7/7 s 229/.73 19
LOC classification:
  • BS192.2.A1 1964 .G3 vol. 41A BS1825.3
Other classification:
  • 220.7
Contents:
Introduction -- The content and character of Second Maccabees -- The sources of First Maccabees and the abridged history -- The historical methods of Jason of Cyrene -- When were the histories written and how are they interrelated? -- What really happened: the civic and religious policies of Antiochus IV -- What really happened: chronological table -- The witnesses to the text -- Selected Bibliography -- Translation and notes -- Epistle 1: A call to the Jews of Egypt to repent and observe the Festival of Tabernacles in the Month of Kislev (1:1-10a) -- Epistle 2: A forged letter to the Egyptian Jews purporting to have been written in 164 B.C.E. (1:10b--2:18) -- The abridger's preface (2:19-32) -- The miraculous thwarting of Heliodorus (3:1-40) -- The atrocious sins of the Hellenizing usurpers (4:1-50) -- How Jason rebelled and Antiochus punished Jerusalem (5:1-27) -- The imposed cult and the persecution (6:1-17) -- The martyrdom of Eleazar (6:18-31) -- The martyrdom of the mother and her seven sons (7:1-42) -- Judas' first victories (8:1-36) -- The death of Antiochus IV (9:1-29) -- The festival of purification (10:1-8) -- Troubles early in the reign of Antiochus V (10:9-38) -- The first expedition of Lysias and the end of the persecution (11:1-38) -- Local wars (12:1-45) -- The expedition of Antiochus V and Lysias (13:1-26) -- The reign of Demetrius I: The high priest Alcimus and the career and fall of the Governor Nicanor (14:1--15:36) -- The abridger's epilogue (15:37-39).
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BS 192.2 .A1 1964 G3 V.37 The Epistles of James, Peter, and Jude. BS 192.2 .A1 1964 G3 V.38 Revelation / BS 192.2 .A1 1964 G3 V.41 I Maccabees : a new translation, with introduction and commentary / BS 192.2 .A1 1964 G3 V.41A II Maccabees / BS 192.2 .A1 1964 G3 V.42 I and II Esdras. / BS 192.2 .A1 1964 G3 V.43 The Wisdom of Solomon : a new translation with introduction and commentary / BS 192.2 .A1 1964 G3 V.44 Daniel, Esther, and Jeremiah : the additions /

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction -- The content and character of Second Maccabees -- The sources of First Maccabees and the abridged history -- The historical methods of Jason of Cyrene -- When were the histories written and how are they interrelated? -- What really happened: the civic and religious policies of Antiochus IV -- What really happened: chronological table -- The witnesses to the text -- Selected Bibliography -- Translation and notes -- Epistle 1: A call to the Jews of Egypt to repent and observe the Festival of Tabernacles in the Month of Kislev (1:1-10a) -- Epistle 2: A forged letter to the Egyptian Jews purporting to have been written in 164 B.C.E. (1:10b--2:18) -- The abridger's preface (2:19-32) -- The miraculous thwarting of Heliodorus (3:1-40) -- The atrocious sins of the Hellenizing usurpers (4:1-50) -- How Jason rebelled and Antiochus punished Jerusalem (5:1-27) -- The imposed cult and the persecution (6:1-17) -- The martyrdom of Eleazar (6:18-31) -- The martyrdom of the mother and her seven sons (7:1-42) -- Judas' first victories (8:1-36) -- The death of Antiochus IV (9:1-29) -- The festival of purification (10:1-8) -- Troubles early in the reign of Antiochus V (10:9-38) -- The first expedition of Lysias and the end of the persecution (11:1-38) -- Local wars (12:1-45) -- The expedition of Antiochus V and Lysias (13:1-26) -- The reign of Demetrius I: The high priest Alcimus and the career and fall of the Governor Nicanor (14:1--15:36) -- The abridger's epilogue (15:37-39).

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