The Five Books of the Maccabees With Notes (Oxford Press 1832) - Couverture souple

Cotton, Henry

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1707826889 ISBN 13 : 9781707826889

Editeur : Independently published, 2019

Synopsis

In the book of First Maccabees, we find Antiochus IV issued a decree forbidding the Jews' religious practice. One Jewish family of a rural Jewish priest from Modiin, Mattathias the Hasmonean and his sons, began a revolt against the Seleucid Empire by refusing to worship the Greek gods. Mattathias killed a Hellenistic Jew who sacrificed to an idol. Afterward, he and his five sons fled to the wilderness of Judah and began a revolt that would change the Jewish world. After Mattathias' death about one year later in 166 BCE, his son Judah Maccabee led an army of Jewish dissidents to victory over the Seleucid dynasty in guerrilla warfare. Judah's nickname "Maccabbeus," now used in popular culture to describe the Jewish partisans as a whole, is taken from the Hebrew word for "hammer". Maccabees, originally written in Hebrew and surviving in a Greek translation, relates the history of the Maccabees from 175 BCE until 134 BCE.2 Maccabees is a Greek abridgment of an earlier history in Hebrew, relates the history of the Maccabees down to 161 BCE, focusing on Judas Maccabaeus, discussing praying for the dead and offerings.3 Maccabees is a Greek book relating to a 3rd-century BCE persecution of the Jews of Egypt.4 Maccabees is a philosophic discourse praising the supremacy of reason over passion, using the Maccabean martyrs as examples.5 Maccabees is an Arab language history from 186 BCE to 6 BCE.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1707826889
• ISBN 13: 9781707826889
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 517
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