The Age of the Maccabees (1898 Streane), book

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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 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


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