A new translation and commentary on I Maccabees that offers a fresh interpretation of the author’s values and purpose\nFirst Maccabees, composed in the second century BCE, chronicles four decades of clashes between Hellenistic Syria and Judea, from Antiochus Epiphanes’s ascent to the throne in 175 BCE to the Hasmoneans’ establishment of an independent Judean state, ruled by Simon and his sons.\nIn this volume, Daniel R. Schwartz provides a new translation of the Greek text and analyzes its historical significance. In dialogue with contemporary scholarship, the introduction surveys the work’s themes, sources, and transmission, while the commentary addresses textual details and issues of historical reconstruction, often devoting special attention to the lost Hebrew original and its associations. Schwartz demonstrates that 1 Maccabees, despite its Hebraic biblical style and its survival within the Christian canon, deviates from biblical and Judaic works by marginalizing God, evincing scorn for martyrs, and ascribing to human power and valor crucial historical roles. This all fits its mandate: justification of the Hasmonean dynasty, especially the Simonides.

1 Maccabees: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary (The Anchor Yale Bible Commentaries)

Religion & Spirituality

Schwartz, Daniel R.

Christian Books & Bibles

Yale University Press

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Rats: A Complete Introduction

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Pets & Animal Care

Tfh Pubns Inc

In writing in English about the classical era, is it more appropriate to refer to “Jews” or to “Judeans”? What difference does it make? Today, many scholars consider “Judeans” the more authentic term, and “Jews” and “Judaism” merely anachronisms.
In Judeans and Jews, Daniel R. Schwartz argues that we need both terms in order to reflect the dichotomy between the tendencies of those, whether in Judea or in the Disapora, whose identity was based on the state and the land (Judeans), and those whose identity was based on a religion and culture (Jews).
Presenting the Second Temple era as an age of transition between a territorial past and an exilic and religious future, Judeans and Jews not only sharpens our understanding of this important era but also sheds important light on the revolution in Jewish identity caused by the creation of the modern state of Israel.

Judeans and Jews: Four Faces of Dichotomy in Ancient Jewish History (The Kenneth Michael Tanenbaum Series in Jewish Studies)

History

Ancient Civilizations

University of Toronto Press

Between Jewish Posen and Scholarly Berlin: The Life and Letters of Philipp Jaffé

Europe

Walter de Gruyter

Apart from an opening survey of modern study of ancient Jewish history, which emphasizes the foundational role of German-Jewish scholars, the studies united in this volume apply philological methods to the writings of four of them: Heinrich Graetz, Isaak Heinemann, Elias Bickerman(n), and Abraham Schalit. In each case, it is argued that some seemingly trivial anomaly or infelicity, in a publication about such ancient characters as Antiochus Epiphanes, Herod, and Josephus, points to the way in which the historian constructed, and revised, his understanding of the Jews' situation under Greeks or Romans in light of his perception of the Jews' situation under the Second or Third Reich. The collection also includes a study that focuses on a Jewish medievalist, Philipp Jaffé, and unravels the indirect but inexorable process that led from a scholarly feud about the editing of medieval Latin texts, in the 1860s, to the "Berlin Antisemitism Dispute" (Berliner Antisemitismusstreit) of 1879-1881, which is commonly viewed as the opening act of modern German antisemitism.

Ancient Jewish Historians and the German Reich: Seven Studies

De Gruyter Oldenbourg

Ancient Jewish Historians And The German Reich

Berlin : De Gruyter Oldenbourg

Daniel R. Schwartz, Born 1952; 1971 immigrated to Israel; 1979 PhD; since 1979 teaching at Dept. of Jewish History, Hebrew University, Jerusalem; since 1995 full professor; since 2011 academic head of Scholion - Interdisciplinary Research Center in the Humanities and Jewish Studies.

Agrippa I: The Last King of Judaea

Mohr Siebeck

Spine title: Jewish background of Christianity.

Studies in the Jewish Background of Christianity (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen Zum Neuen Testament)

Flavius Josephus: Translation and Commentary, Judean Antiquities, Books 18-20 (Flavius Josephus: Translation and Commentary, 8)

Americas

Brill Academic Pub

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