A faithful spirit
Subtitle: preparing for Chanukah : a study text based on the midrash M'gillat Antiochus
By: edited with commentary by Benjamin Levy.
Contributors: Levy, Benjamin, Rabbi.
Edition: 1st American paperback ed.
Publisher: URJ Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 117
ISBN-13: 9780807409336
Subjects: Scroll of Antiochus; Hanukkah; Jews -- History -- 586 B.C.-70 A.D; Maccabees
Other titles: Scroll of Antiochus. English & Hebrew.
Notes: Includes the text of the Scroll of Antiochus in Hebrew and English.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Terror versus freedom: Antiochus presses hegemony; title: Zeal versus passivity: Yochanan takes action; title: Creativity versus rigidity: on Sabbath and survival; title: Earthly (tyrannical) power versus divine omnipotence: preparing for confrontation; title: Continuity versus assimilation: these were the names; title: Tradition versus innovation: the establishment of Chanukah; title: Chanukah: a rabbinic response to the forces of assimilation.