RT Book
T1 Tales of high priests and taxes: the Books of the Maccabees and the Judean rebellion against Antiochos IV
A1 Honigman, Sylvie 1965-
LA English
PP Berkeley, Calif.
PB University of Californiarnia Press
YR 2014
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1611405165
AB "In the wake of the conquests of Alexander the Great, the ancient world of the Bible--the ancient Near East--came under Greek rule, and in the land of Israel, time-old traditions and Greek culture met. But with the accession of King Antiochus IV, the soft power of culture was replaced with armed conflict, and soon the Jews rebelled against their imperial masters, as recorded in the Biblical books of Maccabees. Whereas most scholars have dismissed the Biblical accounts of religious persecution and cultural clash, Sylvie Honigman combines subtle literary analysis with deep historical insight to show how their testimony can be reconciled with modern historical analysis by learning to converse with the biblical authors, so to speak, in their own language to understand the way they described their own experiences. Honigman contents that their stories are not mere fantasies but genuine attempts to cope with the massacre that followed the rebellion by giving it new meaning. This reading also discloses fresh political and economic factors"--
NO Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
CN BS1825.55
SN 9780520275584
SN 9780520958180
K1 Antiochus : IV : King of Syria : approximately 215 B.C.-164 B.C
K1 Bible : Maccabees : History of Biblical events
K1 Jews : Kings and rulers : Brothers
K1 Maccabees
K1 Jews : History : 586 B.C.-70 A.D
K1 Jewish high priests : History