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Rhetoric in 2Maccabees : Challenging God
- Title
- Rhetoric in 2Maccabees : Challenging God / edited by Nicholas Peter Legh Allen and Pierre J. Jordaan.
- Publication
- Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021.
- ©2021
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- Description
- xiv, 212 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
- Summary
- " From a religio-historical perspective, 2Maccabees should be considered a watershed narrative--one that describes the threat of Hellenisation to traditional Jewish religious society. However, by the time 2Macc was written (c. 124 BCE), Judaism had already been greatly Hellenised and, quite ironically, the Jewish opponents to Hellenisation were deliberately employing Greek rhetorical and literary competencies to combat supposedly iniquitous Greek influences. Accordingly, 2Macc has intrigued scholars since at least the nineteenth century. Here, research has variously focused on the grammatical-hi"--
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Call Number
- JFD 21-1267
- ISBN
- 1527563588
- 9781527563582
- OCLC
- 1231958714
- Title
- Rhetoric in 2Maccabees : Challenging God / edited by Nicholas Peter Legh Allen and Pierre J. Jordaan.
- Publisher
- Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021.
- Copyright Date
- ©2021
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Added Author
- Allen, Nicholas Peter Legh, editor.Jordaan, Pierre Johan, editor.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 21-1267