The Age of the Maccabees (1898 Streane), book

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 and translations

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

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