[PDF] Jewish History And Literature Under The Maccabees And Herod eBook

Author : Chester Hearn
Publisher : America Star Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,7 MB
Release : 2004-08
Category : Jews
ISBN : 9781413717426

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Without the books of the Maccabees, there would be little to fill the 450 year gap between the Old and New Testaments. More than scripture, Maccabean literature covers a little understood period in Judean Christian history. Yet the Maccabees, warriors who came from the House of Hasmon, may have preserved the Jewish religion from extinction, but at the same time unwittingly gave rise to Herod. It is the rich history created by the Maccabees during their wars against the Seleucids that adds new understanding of the Jewish nation at a time when the Old Testament lapsed into silence. The Maccabees fought and won successive battles against overpowering odds. Jews began to think of Judas Maccabeus as the warrior Messiah prophesied by Elijah, but in the end the Jews deceived themselves. Though the New Testament says nothing about the Maccabees, their influence is there. Only by understanding Maccabean history is their contribution to Christianity made clear.

Author : A. W. Streane
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 37,26 MB
Release : 2015-06-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781330413012

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Excerpt from The Age of the Maccabees: With Special Reference to the Religious Literature of the Period The aim of this volume of the Bible Student's Library is to give the average educated reader as clear a view as is attainable of the main features which are characteristic of Jewish literature during the period dealt with. That period, though it may briefly be called the Age of the Maccabees, embraces, in fact, as will at once be seen, a much larger space. We have thought it well, therefore, to commence by giving a sketch of the history of the period from the Return of the Jews in accordance with the decree of Cyrus, till the accession of Herod the Great (37 B.C.). We seek, in the next place, to estimate the social, political, and religious condition of the Jewish people during the period dealt with; and the rest of the book is mainly occupied with an examination of the literature of the time, as closely bound up with the aspirations and various modes of thought which are exhibited in the life of the nation, mainly, though we cannot say exclusively, in Palestine and Egypt. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Charles Foster Kent
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 23,67 MB
Release : 2005-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1596057386

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[T]he great contributions of the book of Job to the problem of suffering are: (1) A clear and scientific presentation of the problem; (2) a bold sweeping aside of the insufficient current theological explanations; (3) a vastly enlarged conception of Jehovah's character and rule; and (4) that attitude of faith which comes from as personal experience of God and which trusts unreservedly...-from "The Problem of the Book of Job"Bible students and classical scholars alike will find this 1911 work, from a renowned Biblical scholar of the early 20th century, an enlightening clarification of the most complex and confusing era in Israel's history, the period from the fall of Jerusalem to the death of Herod the Great. Sifting through the limited historical records that have come down to us-the memoirs of Nehemiah, the first book of the Maccabees, the histories of Josephus-as well as the literature that sprang from the anguish and suffering of the scattered Hebrews-including the poems of Isaiah, the Book of Job, and the Psalter-Kent offers insightful literary and historical commentary and critique on the major Jewish writings of the time.Also available from Cosimo Classics: Twelve Studies on the Making of a Nation: The Beginning of Israel's History, by Kent and Jeremiah Whipple JenksAmerican scholar CHARLES FOSTER KENT (1867-1925) was president of the Association of Biblical Instructors in American Colleges and Secondary Schools (now the American Academy of Religion) from 1910 to 1925. He is also the author of A History of the Jewish People.

Author : Flavius Josephus
Publisher : Everyman Paperback Classics
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 28,55 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780460876469

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The dramatic story of an enlightened, civilised benefactor and murderous tyrant. The Life of Herod is a gripping historical account composed with knowledge and involvement by Josephus, the Jewish Historian and apologist of the 1st century AD, from whose Jewish antiquities' the crises and triumphs of Herod's career are vividly recounted inthis translation. It provides an extroadinary insight into the political machinations and emotional turmoil of a despot whose grandiose aims were achieved at expense of personal happiness.

Author : Flavius Josephus
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 1094 pages
File Size : 47,70 MB
Release : 2018-05-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3732694070

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Reproduction of the original: The Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

Author : Henry Cotton
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 27,18 MB
Release : 2022-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781639232253

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the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. The Books of the Maccabees, of which there are five deal in large part with ancient Jewish history, though none are in the Hebrew Bible. All, however, appear in some manuscripts of the Septuagint. The first two books are part of canonical scripture in the Septuagint and the Vulgate (hence are canonical to Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy) and are included in the Protestant Apocrypha. I Maccabees presents a historical account of political, military, and diplomatic events from the time of Judaea's relationship with Antiochus IV Epiphanes of Syria (reigned 175-164/163 bce) to the death (135/134 bce) of Simon Maccabeus, high priest in Jerusalem. II Maccabees focuses on the Jews' revolt against Antiochus and concludes with the defeat of the Syrian general Nicanor in 161 bce by Judas Maccabeus, the hero of the work. In general, its chronology coheres with that of I Maccabees. III Maccabees has no relation to the other three books of Maccabees, all of which deal with the revolt of Judaea against Antiochus IV Epiphanes. It purports to be a historical account of the repression and miraculous salvation of Egyptian Jewry during the reign (221-205 bce) of Ptolemy IV Philopator. IV Maccabees has scanty historical information and belongs to the Maccabees series only because it deals with the beginning of the persecution of Jews by Antiochus IV Epiphanes. It possibly was written during the reign of the Roman emperor Caligula (37-41 ce). Throughout the early Christian period, IV Maccabees was wrongly attributed to Josephus. V Maccabees chronicles the events from Heliodorus' attempt to rob the Temple treasury in 186 BC to the death of Herod the Great's two sons about 6 BC. Similar to other Books of the Maccabees, this work aims at consoling Jews in their sufferings and encouraging them to be steadfast in their devotion to the Mosaic law.