The Maccabean Revolt
Author: Daniel J. Harrington
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2009-11-01
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 160899113X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Daniel J. Harrington
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2009-11-01
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 160899113X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: David DeSilva
Publisher: Kregel Publications
Published: 2015-06-27
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 0825424712
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In the blank pages between Malachi and Matthew, the course of an entire nation was changed... His brother, the high priest Honiah, enjoyed the authority of the high priesthood, and all important decisions needed his approval. But it was Jason who was shaping the future of Jerusalem and with it, all Judea. He breathed in again, imagining that he could feel the wave of destiny impelling him forward toward his vision as he exhaled... The Greeks have taken over the world, but Jerusalem is still the same backwater city Jason has always known. He wants to help his hometown rise to a new age of prosperity and influence. If that means stretching the terms of the city’s divine covenant, so be it. But how far is he willing to go to achieve Greek greatness for this Jewish city? It will take the willingness of a handful of Jews to die rather than violate the covenant in order to turn the tide back to God. Written by an internationally recognized expert in the period between the Testaments, Day of Atonement invites readers into Judea during the tumultuous years leading up to the Maccabean Revolt. It was this pivotal decade that reminded Jews of the centrality of the covenant to their national security and taught them that the covenant was worth dying for. The story is so foundational, it is still told every year at Hanukkah. The lessons learned during this turbulent time also shed light on just what was at stake in the ministry of Jesus, whose radical message seemed to threaten the covenant once again. Day of Atonement joins the perennially successful novels Pontius Pilate and The Flames of Rome by renowned historian Paul Maier on Kregel’s premier list of captivating and historically accurate biblical novels.
Author: John D. Grainger
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
Published: 2012-03-19
Total Pages: 406
ISBN-13: 1781599467
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →By the early second century BC, Israel had long been under the rule of the Hellenistic Seleucid Empire. But the policy of deliberate Hellenization and suppression of Jewish religious practices by Antiochus IV, sparked a revolt in 167 BC which was led initially by Judah Maccabee and later by his brothers and their descendants. Relying on guerrilla tactics the growing insurrection repeatedly took on the sophisticated might of the Seleucid army with mixed, but generally successful, results, establishing the Maccabees as the Hasmonean Dynasty of rulers over a once-more independent Israel. (It is Judah Maccabee's ritual cleansing of the Temple after his victories over the Seleucids that is celebrated by Jews every year at Hannukah). Internal disputes weakened the revived state, however, and it eventually fell victim to the Romans who replaced the Seleucids as the local superpower. John D Grainger explains the causes of the revolt and traces the course of the various campaigns of the Maccabees, first against the Seleucids and then the Romans who captured Jerusalem in 63BC and partitioned the kingdom. The last chapters consider the continued Jewish resistance to Roman rule and factional fighting, until the crowning of Herod, marked the end of the Hasmonean dynasty.
Author: Sylvie Honigman
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2021-03-16
Total Pages: 570
ISBN-13: 0520383141
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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 met Greek culture. But with the accession of King Antiochos 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 the 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 conversing with the biblical authors, so to speak, in their own language to understand the ways they described their experiences. Honigman contends that these 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.
Author: Daniel J Harrington, S.J., PH.D.
Publisher: Michael Glazier Books
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 143
ISBN-13: 9780814656556
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Daniel J. Harrington SJ
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2009-11-01
Total Pages: 142
ISBN-13: 1725227010
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Bezalel Bar-Kochva
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002-08-08
Total Pages: 694
ISBN-13: 9780521016834
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An account of Judas Maccabeus' battles against the Seleucid empire between 166 and 160 B.C.
Author: Elias J Bickerman
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2023-09-29
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13: 900466758X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Elias Joseph Bickerman
Publisher:
Published: 1947
Total Pages: 134
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Daniel J. Harrington
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Published: 2016-12-01
Total Pages: 171
ISBN-13: 0814647820
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →These accounts of the Maccabean revolt, by which the sons of Mattathias reclaimed the temple of Jerusalem, tell an important story of the founding of the Jewish people. "The Hammerers" is the meaning of the nickname "Maccabees," given to Mattathias's sons, who lived in a time of revolution. Empires struggled for control of Greece, Egypt, and Asia, and the small population of Jews tried to preserve their claim to Judea. The five brothers also made heroic contributions to the practice of Judaism. Their rededication of the temple establishes the annual celebration of Hanukkah, and the martyr stories in Second Maccabees emphasize faithfulness to the law of Moses. The books of First and Second Maccabees are also important for Christians, as in them is told how the Jewish people established the political and religious culture into which Jesus was born. The martyr stories inform the early Christian martyrdoms, and the books are written in Greek, the language in which the Jews of Jesus' time read the Scriptures. As Father Harrington notes, without the Maccabees "the fate of Judaism (and with it Christianity and Islam) was uncertain."