Jerusalem / Leipzig / Philadelphia / Washington / D.C. / Vienna / Garden City / Antioch / New York / Athens / Berlin / Rome / Atlanta / Brussels / /
Company
Cambridge University Press / Frank W. Walbank / Philips / Aarhus University Press / Nikanor / Delphi / Harvard University Press / As Frank Walbank / /
Country
Egypt / Israel / Belgique / Jordan / Syria / /
EntertainmentAwardEvent
the Hanukkah] festival / /
Event
Natural Disaster / Person Travel / Person Communication and Meetings / /
Facility
God’s temple / Philip W. Lown Institute of Advanced Judaic Studies / Fortress Press / Harvard University / temple of God / Temple Propaganda / Brandeis University / /
Holiday
Chanukah / /
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rhetorical tool / /
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B.C. / /
Organization
Cambridge University / Catholic Biblical Association / Philip W. Lown Institute / Brandeis University / Harvard University / Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität / Judas’s army / /
Person
Benedikt Niese / Wayne Horowitz / Georges Nachtergael / Patrick D. Miller / Jan Willem van Henten / Jonathan A. Goldstein / II / Georg Schmuttermayr / Ralph Brucker / Grégoire de Nazianze / Frank Shaw / Introduction / Richard Laqueur / Marie-Françoise Baslez / Pierre Roussel / Ferdinand R. Prostmeier / Victor Tcherikover / Charles Bradford Welles / Nils Martola / Robert Doran / Diego Arenhoevel / Daniel Joslyn-Siemiatkoski / Ptolemy / Matthias Gruenwald / Wolfgang Richnow / Guido Schepens / Jason / Jean Chrysostome / Paul D. Hanson / Thomas Wiedemann / Hermann Lichtenberger / Paul Hanson / Patrick Miller / Carl L. W. Grimm / Demetrius I. Lysias / Charles Mugler / Dov Gera / Magda Misset / John Ma / Daniel Schwartz / Jochen Gabriel Bunge / Elias Bickermann / Alexandria Strom / Albert de Jong / Christian Memories / John Hyrcanus / Reinhold Zwick / David S. Williams / Arnaldo Momigliano / Adolf Büchler / Eckhard Plümacher / Daniel R. Schwartz / Peter Hanstein / Jonathan Goldstein / Els de Keyser / Victor Parker / Christian Habicht / Tobias Nicklas / Hugo Bévenot / /
Position
composer / head / historian / author / same author / king / pious high priest / traitorous high priest / Governor / leader / supposed original author / diplomat / Latin historian / writer / high priest / Narrative Structure The author / /
Introduction The work entitled 2 Maccabees presents a host of challenges to conventional assumptions. First of all, the title itself is misleading. Second Maccabees is not a continuation of 1 Maccabees: its narrative