A commentary on I Maccabees
Series: Blackwell's theological texts; Blackwell's theological texts
Publisher: B. Blackwell
Published: 1954
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
Subjects: Bible; Kommentarer; Maccabees, 1st; Bibel; Bibeln; Commentaries; Kommentar
Other titles: Bible. Maccabees, 1st. 1954.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 52-54).
Table of contents: title: 1 Maccabees:; title: Religious and political tone of 1 Maccabees; title: Literary and historical quality; title: Early history of the book; title: Extant MSS; title: The books of the Maccabees in the church; title: 2 Maccabees:; title: Jason and the Epitomist; title: The introductory letters; title: The narrative of 2M 8-12; title: The documents in 2M 11; title: The chronology of the local wars (1M 5); title: Other historical sources:; title: Daniel and the ancient commentators; title: Josephus; title: Megillath Tan'anith; title: The Zadokite fragments and the Dead Sea scrolls; title: Other early Maccabean literature; title: Polybius, Posidonius and their followers; title: Other Greek sources; title: The historical background:; title: The third century B.C.: Palestine under the Ptolemies; title: The second century: Palestine under the Seleucids; title: Chronology.