1.2.4. Summary 1.3. Aims and outline of the present study 1.4. Methodology Chapter 2 The Contribution of the Literary, Social and Cultural Milieus on the Appropriation of Scripture in 1 Maccabees 2.1. Textual issues 2.1.1. Textual variance ...
Summary 2 Maccabees provides solid historical information concerning the activities of Antiochus IV in Egypt and Palestine in the 160s B.C. This information both supplements and partially corrects the corresponding account in 1 Maccabees. Since the Jews in Palestine used the so-called Babylonian ...
Victories over Hostile Neighbors.[a]1When the nations round about heard that the altar had been rebuilt and the sanctuary restored as before, they were enraged.2So they decided to destroy the descendants of Jacob who were among them, and they began to kill and eradicate the people.3Then Jud...
Chapter 2 1In the records it will be found that Jeremiah the prophet ordered the deportees to take some of the fire with them as indicated,2and that the prophet, in giving them the law, directed the deportees not to forget the commandments of the Lord or be led astray in their thought...
1 Maccabees 5 New American Bible (Revised Edition) Chapter 5 Victories over Hostile Neighbors.[a]1When the nations round about heard that the altar had been rebuilt and the sanctuary restored as before, they were enraged.2So they decided to destroy the descendants of Jacob who were among them...