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Shifting Images of the Hasmoneans - Second Temple Legends and Their Reception in Josephus and Rabbinic Literature (Hardcover)
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Shifting Images of the Hasmoneans - Second Temple Legends and Their Reception in Josephus and Rabbinic Literature (Hardcover)
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The shifting image of the Hasmoneans in the eyes of their
contemporaries and later generations is a compelling issue in the
history of the Maccabean revolt and the Hasmonean commonwealth.
Based on a series of six Jewish folktales from the Second Temple
period that describe the Hasmonean dynasty and its history from its
legendary founders, through achievement of full sovereignty, to
downfall, this volume examines the Hasmoneans through the lens of
reception history. On the one hand, these brief, colorful legends
are embedded in the narrative of the historian of the age, Flavius
Josephus; on the other hand, they are scattered throughout the
extensive halakhic-exegetical compositions known as rabbinic
literature, redacted and compiled centuries later. Each set of
parallel stories is examined for the motivation underlying its
creation, its original message, language, and the historical
context. This analysis is followed by exploration of the nature of
the relationship between the Josephan and the rabbinic versions, in
an attempt to reconstruct the adaptation of the putative original
traditions in the two corpora, and to decipher the disparities,
different emphases, reworking, and unique orientations typical of
each. These adaptations reflect the reception of the pristine tales
and thus disclose the shifting images of the Hasmoneans in later
generations and within distinct contexts. The compilation and
characterization of these sources which were preserved by means of
two such different conduits of transmission brings us closer to
reconstruction of a lost literary continent, a hidden Jewish
"Atlantis" of early pseudo-historical legends and facilitates
examination of the relationship between the substantially different
libraries and worlds of Josephus and rabbinic literature.
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