This is a book for anyone interested in the political and cultural
results of the entry of the small state of Judah and its capital
Jerusalem into the wider Hellenistic world in the second century
BCE. In particular it forms a helpful introduction to the biblical
writing called 1 Maccabees, which is preserved in the Apocrypha. 1
Maccabees is a history of the rebellion of the Jews against their
Syrian rulers in the 160s BCE. The rebellion's leader was Judas
Maccabee, and from his family and its success sprang a dynasty that
ruled Judah for the century before the arrival of Herod the Great.
The author of 1 Maccabees was a keen supporter of that dynasty, and
saw their early rulers as made in the mould of the early kings of
Israel. The present book introduces the student to modern scholarly
research on 1 Maccabees and its author.>
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