Second Maccabees and Jewish society: Representations of Jewishness, Hellenism and the interaction between the Greeks and the Jews

In the Second Century B.C.E. the Jews rebelled against their Seleucid overlords achieving, for a while at least, some sort of limited independence. The events that occurred are, in the main, recorded by two works: First and Second Maccabees. The latter of these is a much neglected text. It is malign...

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Main Author: Morrison, Gary
Language:en
Published: University of Canterbury. Classics 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10092/4492