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- ISBN 9783110191189
- Weight: 1022g
- Dimensions: 155 x 230mm
- Publication Date: 20 Oct 2008
- Publisher: De Gruyter
- Publication City/Country: DE
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Daniel R. Schwartz, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
