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'''The Age of the Maccabees.  With special reference to the Religious Literature of the Period''' (1898) is a book by [[Annesley William Streane]].

==Abstract==
A text primarily concerned with the Pseudepigraphic literature of the first two centuries BCE, Streane begins with a critical (largely following the lead of Schürer) historical treatment running from the return from the exile until Herod the Great, in order to place in a historical context the texts with which he will deal.  The ‘post-canonical’ materials are treated with an advanced critical eye and a sophisticated level of philological analysis.  While Streane acknowledges many historical benefits in the study of this literature, he primarily finds the texts useful as a means of closing the gap between the Old and New Testaments.  However, almost entirely lacking throughout the work are the types of anti-Jewish polemics common to much European Christian scholarship of the time.

==Editions==
Published in London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1898.
==Table of Contents==

*1.	Sketch of Jewish History After the Return from the Captivity
*2.	The Condition of Palestine from the Return to the Accession of Antiochus the Great
*3.	The History from the Accession of Antiochus the Great to the Time of the Maccabean Revolt (222-168 B.C.)
*4.	The Maccabean Revolt to the Death of Judas (168-160 B.C.)
*5.	From the Death of Judas to the Death of Simon III. (160-135 B.C.)
*6.	The Reign of John Hyrcanus (135-106 B.C.)
*7.	From the Accession of Aristobulus to the Death of Jannaeus (106-78 B.C.)
*8.	The Reign of Alexandra (78-69 B.C.)
*9.	From the Death of Alexandra to Herod’s Capture of Jerusalem (69-37 B.C.)
*10.	General Features of the Religious Literature of the Maccabean Age
*11.	The Apocrypha
*12.	Historical or Quasi-Historical Books
*13.	Other Pseudepigraphic Additions to the Canonical Literature
*14.	Gnomic and Philosophical Writings
*15.	Poetic Literature
*16.	Apocalyptic Literature
*17.	The Septuagint
*18.	Conclusion
*Appendices

==External Links==
*[http://www.archive.org/details/agemaccabeeswit00stregoog Internet Archive (full text)]
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=w5s2AAAAMAAJ&pg=PR3#v=onepage&q=&f=false Google books (full text)]


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