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Tales of High Priests and Taxes

The Books of the Maccabees and the Judean Rebellion Against Antiochos IV

by Sylvie Honigman

  • Hardback
  • 568 pages
  • Publisher: University of California Press
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 4.4 cm

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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 Antiochus IV, the soft power of culture was replaced with armed conflict, and soon the Jews rebelled against their imperial masters, as recorded in the Biblical books of Maccabees. Whereas most scholars have dismissed the Biblical accounts of religious persecution and cultural clash, Sylvie Honigman combines subtle literary analysis with deep historical insight to show how their testimony can be reconciled with modern historical analysis by learning to converse with the Biblical authors, so to speak, in their own language to understand the way they described their own experiences. Honigman contents that their stories are not mere fantasies but genuine attempts to cope with the massacre that followed the rebellion by giving it new meaning. This reading also discloses fresh political and economic factors.
Tales of High Priests and Taxes and The Septuagint and Homeric Scholarship in Alexandria
The Septuagint and Homeric Scholarship in AlexandriaTales of High Priests and Taxes

  • Author

    Sylvie Honigman

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    University of California Press

  • Published

    August 2014

  • Weight

    795g

  • Page Count

    568

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 4.4 cm

  • ISBN

    9780520275584

  • ISBN-10

    0520275586

  • Eden Code

    4267320

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