Summarising the proposed analyses of the contents of the Books of the Maccabees, it can be noted that the Biblical authors described three main attitudes of the Jews to the Hellenistic culture and the pagan religion that was part of that culture: the attitude of openness and ready adoption of the “Greek customs,” military resistance, as well as the heroic attitudes of giving one’s life for the sake of fidelity to the prescripts of the Law. As the Books of the Maccabees show, the high priests of Jerusalem played a non-unimportant role in the process of the city Hellenization. It also should be observed that the authors, describing historical facts, sometimes put their own interpretation on them to express a definite theological message. Spo...
textAlmost fifty-five years following the findings of the Dead Sea Scrolls, academic studies are now...
The text precedes the influence of the Holly Book, the Bible, on the Macedonian culture and literatu...
Hellenistic philosophy in general, and Stoicism in particular, exerted a profound influence on the p...
Summarising the proposed analyses of the contents of the Books of the Maccabees, it can be noted tha...
"The Tobiads and the Maccabees: Hellenism and Power in the Ancient Judean Community" takes a look at...
The present study investigates the characteristics and function of Scripture in 1 Maccabees. It argu...
In the Second Century B.C.E. the Jews rebelled against their Seleucid overlords achieving, for a whi...
Jewish Identity and Politics between the Maccabees and Bar Kokhba. Groups, Normativity, and Rituals ...
In a way similar to earlier biblical times Jews in the time after Alexander the Great were confronte...
This thesis is a re-examination of the documents in 1 Maccabees, which have been the subject of much...
The idea of Greek influences on Hellenistic Judaism appears to be so deeply engrained within modern ...
What was the biblical interpretation of the Jews’ conduct in the final stage of the history of Israe...
In the last 50 years, our knowledge of the “classical” period in Judea has been growing by leaps and...
This article investigates how Judeans responded to Hellenism in order to maintain the integrity of ...
The author sketches briefly the History of Israel two centuries before Christ and indicates the vari...
textAlmost fifty-five years following the findings of the Dead Sea Scrolls, academic studies are now...
The text precedes the influence of the Holly Book, the Bible, on the Macedonian culture and literatu...
Hellenistic philosophy in general, and Stoicism in particular, exerted a profound influence on the p...
Summarising the proposed analyses of the contents of the Books of the Maccabees, it can be noted tha...
"The Tobiads and the Maccabees: Hellenism and Power in the Ancient Judean Community" takes a look at...
The present study investigates the characteristics and function of Scripture in 1 Maccabees. It argu...
In the Second Century B.C.E. the Jews rebelled against their Seleucid overlords achieving, for a whi...
Jewish Identity and Politics between the Maccabees and Bar Kokhba. Groups, Normativity, and Rituals ...
In a way similar to earlier biblical times Jews in the time after Alexander the Great were confronte...
This thesis is a re-examination of the documents in 1 Maccabees, which have been the subject of much...
The idea of Greek influences on Hellenistic Judaism appears to be so deeply engrained within modern ...
What was the biblical interpretation of the Jews’ conduct in the final stage of the history of Israe...
In the last 50 years, our knowledge of the “classical” period in Judea has been growing by leaps and...
This article investigates how Judeans responded to Hellenism in order to maintain the integrity of ...
The author sketches briefly the History of Israel two centuries before Christ and indicates the vari...
textAlmost fifty-five years following the findings of the Dead Sea Scrolls, academic studies are now...
The text precedes the influence of the Holly Book, the Bible, on the Macedonian culture and literatu...
Hellenistic philosophy in general, and Stoicism in particular, exerted a profound influence on the p...