The Maccabees

Author : Henry Cotton
Publisher : Ravenio Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Five Books of Maccabees in English written by Henry Cotton and published by Ravenio Books. This book was released on with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Five Books of Maccabees in English is a comprehensive collection of the Maccabean texts, which chronicle the heroic struggle of the Jewish people against oppression and their fight for religious freedom. This volume brings together all five books, offering a complete account of the Maccabean Revolt and its aftermath. Henry Cotton's translation provides readers with an accessible and engaging introduction to these significant historical and religious texts.

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Publisher : Scepter Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781889334844
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chronicles-Maccabees written by and published by Scepter Publishers. This book was released on 2003 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of the Navarre Bible commentaries unlocks the mysteries of a wide-ranging sequence of Old Testament books: the historical books of Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, and Maccabees and the little-known but pivotally important books of Tobit, Judith, and Esther. In these books you'll find the rich and instructive stories of Kings David and Solomon, the Babylonian exile, and its aftermath; the heroism of the Maccabees who gave their lives to preserve their faith in God; and the deep faith and awareness of divine blessing that invests the books of Tobit, Judith, and Esther.

Author : Sylvie Honigman
Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520383141
Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tales of High Priests and Taxes written by Sylvie Honigman and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wake of the conquests of Alexander the Great, the ancient world of the Bible—the ancient Near East—came under Greek rule, and in the land of Israel, time-old traditions met Greek culture. But with the accession of King Antiochos IV, the soft power of culture was replaced with armed conflict, and soon the Jews rebelled against their imperial masters, as recorded in the Biblical books of the Maccabees. Whereas most scholars have dismissed the biblical accounts of religious persecution and cultural clash, Sylvie Honigman combines subtle literary analysis with deep historical insight to show how their testimony can be reconciled with modern historical analysis by conversing with the biblical authors, so to speak, in their own language to understand the ways they described their experiences. Honigman contends that these stories are not mere fantasies but genuine attempts to cope with the massacre that followed the rebellion by giving it new meaning. This reading also discloses fresh political and economic factors.

Author : Daniel J. Harrington
Publisher : Liturgical Press
ISBN 13 : 081462846X
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book First and Second Maccabees written by Daniel J. Harrington and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive and understandable, these books bring the relevance of the Old Testament to Bible study participants, teachers, students, preachers, and all readers of the Bible. The series is filled with recent scholarship, provides vital background, and addresses important questions such as authorship and cultural context. Often neglected, the books of First and Second Maccabees are important for Christians, as in them is told how the Jewish people established the political and religious culture into which Jesus was born. The martyr stories inform the early Christian martyrdoms, and the books are written in Greek, the language in which the Jews of Jesus time read the scriptures. More importantly, as Father Harrington notes, without the Maccabees the fate of Judaism (and with it Christianity and Islam) was uncertain.

Author : Richard Bauckham
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467463361
Total Pages : 848 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Old Testament Pseudepigrapha written by Richard Bauckham and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2013-11-21 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work stands among the most important publications in biblical studies over the past twenty-five years. Richard Bauckham, James Davila, and Alexander Panayotov’s new two-volume collection of Old Testament pseudepigrapha contains many previously unpublished and newly translated texts, complementing James Charlesworth’s Old Testament Pseudepigrapha and other earlier collections. Including virtually all known surviving pseudepigrapha written before the rise of Islam, this volume, among other things, presents the sacred legends and spiritual reflections of numerous long-dead authors whose works were lost, neglected, or suppressed for many centuries. Excellent English translations along with authoritative yet accessible introductions bring those ancient documents to life for readers today.

Author : Tilda Balsley
Publisher : Millbrook Press
ISBN 13 : 1512491144
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maccabee! written by Tilda Balsley and published by Millbrook Press. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kar-Ben Read-Aloud eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting to bring eBooks to life! "Sometimes it only takes a few, who know what's right and do it, too." Judah and the little army of Maccabees fight to free Jerusalem from the cruel King Antiochus in this vibrant and action-filled rhyming version of the famous Hanukkah story.

Author : John D. Grainger
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1781599467
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wars of the Maccabees written by John D. Grainger and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2012-03-19 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the early second century BC, Israel had long been under the rule of the Hellenistic Seleucid Empire. But the policy of deliberate Hellenization and suppression of Jewish religious practices by Antiochus IV, sparked a revolt in 167 BC which was led initially by Judah Maccabee and later by his brothers and their descendants. Relying on guerrilla tactics the growing insurrection repeatedly took on the sophisticated might of the Seleucid army with mixed, but generally successful, results, establishing the Maccabees as the Hasmonean Dynasty of rulers over a once-more independent Israel. (It is Judah Maccabee's ritual cleansing of the Temple after his victories over the Seleucids that is celebrated by Jews every year at Hannukah). Internal disputes weakened the revived state, however, and it eventually fell victim to the Romans who replaced the Seleucids as the local superpower. John D Grainger explains the causes of the revolt and traces the course of the various campaigns of the Maccabees, first against the Seleucids and then the Romans who captured Jerusalem in 63BC and partitioned the kingdom. The last chapters consider the continued Jewish resistance to Roman rule and factional fighting, until the crowning of Herod, marked the end of the Hasmonean dynasty.

Author : Géza Xeravits
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900415700X
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Books of the Maccabees: History, Theology, Ideology written by Géza Xeravits and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume contains essays on various problems of the early Jewish works: the Books of the Maccabees. Authors include renowned international specialists in the literature and thinking of early Judaism.

Author : James Orr
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 760 pages
Book Rating : 4.C9/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia written by James Orr and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Amit Arad
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781091425422
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rise of the Maccabees written by Amit Arad and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-16 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When one falls The other rises... Jerusalem, 180 BCE. For 800 years the Zadokite priesthood has led the Jewish People. But the world is changing. Without, Rome is rising, crushing the other powers of the ancient world beneath it. Within, a power struggle inside the House of Zadok is a golden opportunity for interlopers, who seek to unseat them from the throne. The delicate balance which has allowed the Jewish Nation to survive in this age of Empires is threatened. On the background of these tumultuous times, Judah, scion of a minor priestly lineage, comes of age in Judea. While experiencing love, friendship, and conflict he slowly transforms into the warrior and leader his people are waiting for. This is the incredible story of Matityahu the Priest, Judah Maccabee and his brothers, and the Hellenizer Eupolemus. Together, they embark on a struggle for the survival of the Jewish people against the powerful Seleucid Empire.