Tales of high priests and taxes : the books of the Maccabees and the Judean rebellion against Antiochos IV

1. Verfasser: Honigman, Sylvie, 1965-
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Berkeley, California : University of California Press, 2014.
Umfang/Format: ix, 554 pages.
Schlagworte:
Inhalte/Bestandteile: 3 Datensätze
Online Zugang: Online available
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Part I. Ioudaismos: 1 and 2 Maccabees as dynastic history
  • Methodological introduction: the modern semantic categories of "religion" and "politics" and ancient societies
  • 1. 2 Maccabees as dynastic history
  • 2. Temple foundation and royal legitimacy: a narrative pattern and its message
  • 3. Ioudaismos as the legitimate social order founded by Judas Maccabee
  • 4. Royal high priests and Temple foundation: the narrative pattern and the Hasmonean political order
  • Part II. Hellenismos: the causes of the rebellion in 1 and 2 Maccabees. Methodological introduction: symbolic universe, cultural codes, and causal analysis in 1 and 2 Maccabees 5. Hellenismos: the social order of the wicked rivals in 1 and 2 Maccabees
  • 6. The "religious persecution" in light of ancient Judean cultural and narrative codes
  • 7. The causes of the rebellion according to 1 and 2 Maccabees
  • Part III. History: the Judean rebellion in historical perspective, 200-164 B.C.E.
  • 8. Judea and Koile Syria and Phoinike under Antiochos III, 200-187 B.C.E.
  • 9. Seleukos IV Philopator and the revision of Antiochos III's settlement in Judea, 187-175 B.C.E.
  • 10. Judea under Antiochos IV Epiphanes: the reforms, 175-ca. 172 B.C.E.
  • 11. Judea under Antiochos IV Epiphanes: the suppression of the rebellion, 169-164 B.C.E.
  • Appendix A. The literary composition of 1 Maccabees
  • Appendix B. The literary composition of 2 Maccabees.