Apocalypse against empire
Subtitle: theologies of resistance in early Judaism
By: Anathea E. Portier-Young
Edition: Paperback edition.
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Grand Rapids, Michigan
Language: eng
Number of pages: 462
ISBN-13: 9780802870834
Copyright date: 2011
Subjects: Resistance (Philosophy); Jews; History; History of Biblical events; Criticism, interpretation; Judaism; Maccabees; Military history in the Bible; Military History; Social aspects; Bible; Ethiopic book of Enoch
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-438) and index.
Table of contents: title: Theorizing resistance --; title: Hellenistic rule in Judea : setting the stage for resistance --; title: Interaction and identity in Seleucid Judea : 188-173 BCE --; title: Re-creating the empire : the Sixth Syrian War, Jason's revolt, and the reconquest of Jerusalem --; title: Seleucid state terror --; title: The edict of Antiochus : persecution and the unmaking of the Judean world --; title: Daniel --; title: Enochic authority --; title: The Apocalypse of weeks : witness and transformation --; title: The Book of dreams : see and cry out.