2 Maccabees
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2 Maccabees
（Commentaries on early Jewish literature / edited by Loren T. Stuckenbruck and Pieter W. van der Horst ... [et al.]）
Walter de Gruyter, c2008
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Second Maccabees
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Includes an English translation of the text of 2nd Maccabees
Bibliography: p. [97]-126
Includes indexes
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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.
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