The Age of the Maccabees (1898 Streane), book
The Age of the Maccabees. With special reference to the Religious Literature of the Period (1843) 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
- I. Sketch of Jewish History After the Return from the Captivity
- II. The Condition of Palestine from the Return to the Accession of Antiochus the Great
- III. The History from the Accession of Antiochus the Great to the Time of the Maccabean Revolt (222-168 B.C.)
- IV. The Maccabean Revolt to the Death of Judas (168-160 B.C.)
- V. From the Death of Judas to the Death of Simon III. (160-135 B.C.)
- VI. The Reign of John Hyrcanus (135-106 B.C.)
- VII. From the Accession of Aristobulus to the Death of Jannaeus (106-78 B.C.)
- VIII. The Reign of Alexandra (78-69 B.C.)
- IX. From the Death of Alexandra to Herod’s Capture of Jerusalem (69-37 B.C.)
- X. General Features of the Religious Literature of the Maccabean Age
- XI. The Apocrypha
- XII. Historical or Quasi-Historical Books
- XIII. Other Pseudepigraphic Additions to the Canonical Literature
- XIV. Gnomic and Philosophical Writings
- XV. Poetic Literature
- XVI. Apocalyptic Literature
- XVII. The Septuagint
- XVIII. Conclusion
- Appendix A. The Assideans and their Relation to the Pharisees
- Appendix B. Traditional Account of the Succession of Jewish Teachers
- Appendix C. The Date of the Book of Daniel
- Index