Tales of High Priests and Taxes : The Books of the Maccabees and the Judean Rebellion against Antiochos IV
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 Antiochos IV, the soft power of culture was replaced with armed confli...
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2014.
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- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; General Introduction; PART I. IOUDAÏSMOS: 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. Ioudaïsmos as the Legitimate Social Order Founded by Judas Maccabee; 4. Royal High Priests and Temple Foundation: The Narrative Pattern and the Hasmonean Political Order; Conclusion.
- PART II. HELLENISMOS: THE CAUSES OF THE REBELLION ACCORDING TO THE AUTHORS OF 1 AND 2 MACCABEES
- Methodological Introduction: Symbolic Universe, Cultural Codes, and Causal Analysis in 1 and 2 Maccabees5. Hellenismos: The Social Order of the Wicked Rivals in 1 and 2 Maccabees; 6. The ""Religious Persecution"" in the Light of Ancient Judean Cultural and Narrative Codes; 7. The Causes of the Rebellion according to 1 and 2 Maccabees; Conclusion.
- PART III. HISTORY: THE JUDEAN REBELLION IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE, 200-164 B.C.E.
- From Literary Analysis to History: A Summary of the Conclusions of Parts I and II8. 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, 169/8-164 B.C.E.; Appendix A. The Literary Composition of 1 Maccabees.
- Appendix B. The Literary Composition of 2 MaccabeesAbbreviations; General Notes; Bibliography; Index Locorum; Subject Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z.