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The books of the Maccabees : literary, historical and religious perspectives / edited by Jan Willem van Henten.

By: (69th : Journées bibliques de Louvain (69th : 2021 : Online)
Contributor(s): Henten, Jan Willem van, 1955- [editor.]
Material type: TextTextLanguage: English, French, German Series: Bibliotheca Ephemeridum theologicarum Lovaniensium: 328.Publisher: Leuven : Peeters, 2022Copyright date: ©2022Description: xxii, 734 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9789042950214; 9042950218Subject(s): Bible. Maccabees -- Criticism and interpretation | Third Book of Maccabees -- Criticism and interpretation | Fourth Book of Maccabees -- Criticism and interpretationLOC classification: BS1825.52 | .J68 2021Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
Jan Willem van Henten -- New perspectives on 1-4 Maccabees / Jan Willem van Henten -- Erzählte Macht: das sogenannte Simon-Dekret (1 Makk 14,27-49) im Kontext des Ersten Makkabäerbuchs / Barbara Schmitz -- References to scripture in the depictions of military campaigns in 1 Maccabees / Michael Tilly -- Scoundrels, pious ones, and exemplars: reading 1 Maccabees through the lens of the Dead Sea Scrolls / Eibert Tigchelaar -- Maccabean traditions / Dov Gera -- Torah and hybridity in the framing of the Fourth Book of Maccabees / Tessa Rajak -- 2 Maccabées: révolte et persécutions entre histoire et mémoire / Sylvie Honigman -- Jerusalem oder der Tempel im Zweiten Makkabäerbuch? / Hermann Lichtenberger -- Biblical historiography, Polybius, and 1 Maccabees / Robert Doran -- Hasmonean historiography in its post-Seleucid context / Benedikt Eckhardt -- A Judaic perspective on Judean events : 2 Maccabees as a diasporic book / Daniel R. Schwartz -- Les Maccabées face à la puissance de Rome / Katell Berthelot -- Joshua and the Hasmoneans: the presence and absence of the Joshua narratives within Hasmonean historiography / Michaël N. van der Meer -- Der αδελφός-Begriff im Ersten und Zweiten Makkabäerbuch zur Bezeichnung von Gruppen / Jana Hock, Valeria Tietze -- Two cases of reconstruction of the Hebrew of 1 Maccabees / Natan Evron -- Did 1 Maccabees turn Galilee into a Gentile habitation? A semantic and literary rereading of Γαλιλαία αλλοφύλων in 1 Maccabees 5,15 / Rex Fortes -- Maccabean versus Greek war heroes: a note on 1 Maccabees 6,43-46 and 2 Maccabees 12,32-35 / Joseph Verheyden -- A text-critical issue in 1 Maccabees 7,17: Σάρκας or Κρέας? / Li Liu -- Amicitia et societas inter Romanos et Judaeos: interprétation de 1 Maccabées 8 à la lumière des relations internationales dans le Proche-Orient ancien / Innocent Ouédraogo -- The toil of abbreviating: 2 Maccabees in comparison with Greek epitomes / Joshua Alfaro -- Die Aussenpolitik der Hasmonäer: eine Analyse des Zweiten Briefes des 2. Makkabäerbuches (2 Makk 1,10b-2,18) / Florian Oepping -- Ψυχαγωγία in 2 Maccabees 2,25: entertainment or inspirational discourse? / Paul B. Decock -- The martyred mother's testimony in 2 Maccabees 7 / Isabella Lemelin -- Was the author of 2 Maccabees 7 a woman? / Gerbern S. Oegema -- Hope in spite of death: an analysis of the vocabulary and the underlying ideas of 2 Maccabees 7,11 / Eberhard Bons -- Gender stereotypes and transversity in 2 Maccabees 7,20-21 / Gesila Nneka Uzukwu -- La foi en la résurrection des corps vient-elle d'Iran? / Christel Koehler -- Is 3 Maccabees an Exodus story? / Noah Hacham -- Divine interventions in war in 3 Maccabees: some affinities with Greek literature / Beatrice Perego -- Structure et genèse de 4 Maccabées 13,1-17,1 / Emmanuel Weiss -- The earliest reception of First Maccabees / Chris Seeman -- About a horse, a rider going to war and the colour white : are there allusions to 2 Maccabees 3,25 and 11,8 in Revelation 19,11? / Soeng Yu Li -- Mater admirabilis: the mother of the Maccabees in ancient Christian literature / Giulia Leonardi -- From Latin into Hebrew: Medieval Hebrew narrative adaptation of the books of the Maccabees / Saskia Dönitz -- Reinventing the hammer: Judah the Maccabee and the Hasmonean legacy in Sefer Yosippon / Carson Bay.
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Book Book John Bulow Campbell Library 1 East BS1825.52 .J68 2021 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0182903602221

25 English, 5 French, 4 German contributions.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction / Jan Willem van Henten -- Presidential Address. New perspectives on 1-4 Maccabees / Jan Willem van Henten -- Main Papers. Literary Perspectives. Erzählte Macht: das sogenannte Simon-Dekret (1 Makk 14,27-49) im Kontext des Ersten Makkabäerbuchs / Barbara Schmitz -- References to scripture in the depictions of military campaigns in 1 Maccabees / Michael Tilly -- Scoundrels, pious ones, and exemplars: reading 1 Maccabees through the lens of the Dead Sea Scrolls / Eibert Tigchelaar -- Maccabean traditions / Dov Gera -- Torah and hybridity in the framing of the Fourth Book of Maccabees / Tessa Rajak -- Historical and Historiographical Perspectives. 2 Maccabées: révolte et persécutions entre histoire et mémoire / Sylvie Honigman -- Jerusalem oder der Tempel im Zweiten Makkabäerbuch? / Hermann Lichtenberger -- Biblical historiography, Polybius, and 1 Maccabees / Robert Doran -- Hasmonean historiography in its post-Seleucid context / Benedikt Eckhardt -- A Judaic perspective on Judean events : 2 Maccabees as a diasporic book / Daniel R. Schwartz -- Les Maccabées face à la puissance de Rome / Katell Berthelot -- Offered Papers. 1 Maccabees. Joshua and the Hasmoneans: the presence and absence of the Joshua narratives within Hasmonean historiography / Michaël N. van der Meer -- Der αδελφός-Begriff im Ersten und Zweiten Makkabäerbuch zur Bezeichnung von Gruppen / Jana Hock, Valeria Tietze -- Two cases of reconstruction of the Hebrew of 1 Maccabees / Natan Evron -- Did 1 Maccabees turn Galilee into a Gentile habitation? A semantic and literary rereading of Γαλιλαία αλλοφύλων in 1 Maccabees 5,15 / Rex Fortes -- Maccabean versus Greek war heroes: a note on 1 Maccabees 6,43-46 and 2 Maccabees 12,32-35 / Joseph Verheyden -- A text-critical issue in 1 Maccabees 7,17: Σάρκας or Κρέας? / Li Liu -- Amicitia et societas inter Romanos et Judaeos: interprétation de 1 Maccabées 8 à la lumière des relations internationales dans le Proche-Orient ancien / Innocent Ouédraogo -- 2 Maccabees. The toil of abbreviating: 2 Maccabees in comparison with Greek epitomes / Joshua Alfaro -- Die Aussenpolitik der Hasmonäer: eine Analyse des Zweiten Briefes des 2. Makkabäerbuches (2 Makk 1,10b-2,18) / Florian Oepping -- Ψυχαγωγία in 2 Maccabees 2,25: entertainment or inspirational discourse? / Paul B. Decock -- The martyred mother's testimony in 2 Maccabees 7 / Isabella Lemelin -- Was the author of 2 Maccabees 7 a woman? / Gerbern S. Oegema -- Hope in spite of death: an analysis of the vocabulary and the underlying ideas of 2 Maccabees 7,11 / Eberhard Bons -- Gender stereotypes and transversity in 2 Maccabees 7,20-21 / Gesila Nneka Uzukwu -- La foi en la résurrection des corps vient-elle d'Iran? / Christel Koehler -- 3 and 4 Maccabees. Is 3 Maccabees an Exodus story? / Noah Hacham -- Divine interventions in war in 3 Maccabees: some affinities with Greek literature / Beatrice Perego -- Structure et genèse de 4 Maccabées 13,1-17,1 / Emmanuel Weiss -- Transmission and Reception History. The earliest reception of First Maccabees / Chris Seeman -- About a horse, a rider going to war and the colour white : are there allusions to 2 Maccabees 3,25 and 11,8 in Revelation 19,11? / Soeng Yu Li -- Mater admirabilis: the mother of the Maccabees in ancient Christian literature / Giulia Leonardi -- From Latin into Hebrew: Medieval Hebrew narrative adaptation of the books of the Maccabees / Saskia Dönitz -- Reinventing the hammer: Judah the Maccabee and the Hasmonean legacy in Sefer Yosippon / Carson Bay.