| Description |
1 online resource (111 pages). |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Guides to Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha
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Guides to Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
The origin of 1 Maccabees -- The composition of 1 Maccabees -- Chronology and sequence -- Chapters 1 and 2 : the decree of Antiochus -- Chapters 3.1-9.22 : the acts of Judas -- Chapters 9.23-16.24 : Jonathan, Simon--and John -- Epilogue : the historian. |
| Summary |
This is a book for anyone interested in the political and cultural results of the entry of the small state of Judah and its capital Jerusalem into the wider Hellenistic world in the second century BCE. In particular it forms a helpful introduction to the biblical writing called 1 Maccabees, which is preserved in the Apocrypha. 1 Maccabees is a history of the rebellion of the Jews against their Syrian rulers in the 160s BCE. The rebellion's leader was Judas Maccabee, and from his family and its success sprang a dynasty that ruled Judah for the century before the arrival of Herod the Great. The. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Bible. Maccabees, 1st -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Bible. Maccabees, 1st. |
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Bible. A.T. Macchabées, 1er -- Critique, interprétation, etc. |
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Bible. Maccabees, 1st. |
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Makkabäer <Buch, I.>. |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Title |
First Maccabees |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Bartlett, John R. (John Raymond). 1 Maccabees. Sheffield, England : Sheffield Academic Press, ©1998 1850757631 (DLC) 2001431156 (OCoLC)39839502 |
| ISBN |
9780567620002 (electronic book) |
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056762000X (electronic book) |
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1283201224 |
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9781283201223 |
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1850757631 |
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9781850757634 |
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