2 Maccabees / / Daniel R. Schwartz.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• VerfasserIn: Schwartz, Daniel R.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2008]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Commentaries on Early Jewish Literature ,
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (617 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; Introduction --; I. Subject, Purpose and Date --; II. Sources and Development --; III. Historical Worth and Leading Ideas --; IV. Between the Bible and Greek Literature --; V. Language and Style --; VI. Reception and Text --; VII. Literature --; VIII. Abbreviations and Bibliography --; Translation and Commentary --; Introductory Letters (1:1–2:18) --; Author’s Preface (2:19–32) --; Chapter III --; Chapter IV --; Chapter V --; Chapter VI --; Chapter VII --; Chapter VIII --; Chapter IX --; Chapter X --; Chapter XI --; Chapter XII --; Chapter XIII --; Chapter XIV --; Chapter XV --; Appendices --; Appendix 1: On the Letters in Chapters 1–2 --; Appendix 2: “to register the people of Jerusalem as Antiochenes” (4:9) --; Appendix 3: “his second invasion” (5:1) --; Appendix 4: “as the residents of the place requested” (6:2) --; Appendix 5: A Ptolemaic Account of Antiochus’ Decrees? (2 Macc 6:7) --; Appendix 6: “the tribute (still owed) to the Romans” (2 Macc 8:10, 36) --; Appendix 7: The Battle Against the Galatians (8:20) --; Appendix 8: “their own foods” (11:31) --; Appendix 9: “to be his successor” (14:26) --; Appendix 10: “the Syrian Language” (15:36) --; Appendix 11: “and ever since the city was taken over by the Hebrews it has been in their hands” (15:37) --; Backmatter
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110211207; 9783110238570; 9783110238549; 9783110638165; 9783110212129; 9783110212136; 9783110209280
• ISSN: 1861-6003
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110211207
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Daniel R. Schwartz.

2 Maccabees is a Jewish work composed during the 2nd century BCE and preserved by the Church. Written in Hellenistic Greek and told from a Jewish-Hellenistic perspective, 2 Maccabees narrates and interprets the ups and downs of events that took place in Jerusalem prior to and during the Maccabean revolt: institutionalized Hellenization and the foundation of Jerusalem as a polis; the persecution of Jews by Antiochus Epiphanes, accompanied by famous martyrdoms; and the rebellion against Seleucid rule by Judas Maccabaeus. 2 Maccabees is an important source both for the events it describes and for the values and interests of the Judaism of the Hellenistic diaspora that it reflects - which are often quite different from those represented by its competitor, 1 Maccabees.