The Hasmoneans
Subtitle: ideology, archaeology, identity
By: Eyal Regev
Series: Journal of Ancient Judaism. Supplements -- volume 10; Journal of ancient Judaism -- v. 10.
Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht; Vandehoeck & Rupprecht
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Göttingen
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9783525550434; 9783647550435
Subjects: Judaism; Jews; Makkabäer; Antiquities; Maccabees; Post-exilic period (Judaism); Zeithintergrund; Excavations (Archaeology); Identity; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Hanukkah and the Temple of Maccabees; title: The Centrality of the Temple in Hasmonean Ideology; title: Leading the People: Establishing Hasmonean Authority; title: Hasmonean Kingship in Hellenistic and Jewish Contexts; title: Hasmonean Coinage as Political Discourse; title: Royal Ideology in the Hasmonean Palaces in Jericho; title: Hasmonean Construction of the Jewish Collective Identity.