The Books of the Maccabees (2007 Xeravits, Zsengellér), edited volume

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The Books of the Maccabees: History, Theology, Ideology (2007) is a volume edited by Géza G. Xeravits, and József Zsengellér.

Abstract

"Proceedings of the Second International Conference on the Deuterocanonical Books, Pápa, Hungary, 9-11 June, 2005."

Editions

Published in Leiden: Brill, 2007 (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism, 118).

Contents

• Has the category of "deuterocanonical books" a Jewish origin? / Gilles Dorival

• Books of the Maccabees and sectarianism in Second Temple Judaism / John Kampen

• Famine in 1 Maccabees: history or apology? / Jack Pastor

• Biblical conquest of the Promised Land and the Hasmonaean wars according to 1 and 2 Maccabees / Katell Berthelot

• Role of "scripture" in the Last Words of Mattathias (1 Macc 2:49-70) / Thomas Hieke

• Die Vergangenheit als Basis für die Zukunft Mattatias' Lehre für seine Söhne aus der Geschichte in 1 Makk 2:52-60 / Friedrich V. Reiterer

• Irony in 2 Maccabees? / Tobias Nicklas

• Origin of the martyrdom images: from the Book of Maccabees to the first Christians / Marie-Françoise Baslez

• "As soon as the signal was given" (2 Macc 4:14): gymnasia in the service of Hellenism / János Bolyki -- God's justice. The "measure for measure" principle in 2 Maccabees / Beate Ego

• 2 Maccabees 2:13-15: library or canon? / Armin Lange

• Libraries in 2 Macc 2:13-15, and the Torah as a public document in second century BC Judaism / Stefan Schorch

• Maccabees and Temple propaganda / József Zsengellér

Deluge and the flood of emotions: the use of flood imagery in 4 Maccabees in its ancient Jewish context / Matthias Weigold

• From the forefathers to the "Angry Lion." Qumran and the Hasmonaeans / Géza G. Xeravits

External links

• [ Google Books]