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Tales of High Priests and Taxes - The Books of the Maccabees and the Judean Rebellion against Antiochos IV (Hardcover)
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Tales of High Priests and Taxes - The Books of the Maccabees and the Judean Rebellion against Antiochos IV (Hardcover)
Series: Hellenistic Culture and Society, 56
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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 and Greek culture
met. But with the accession of King Antiochus 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 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 learning to converse with the
Biblical authors, so to speak, in their own language to understand
the way they described their own experiences. Honigman contents
that their 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.
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