The Maccabean Revolt - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Maccabean Revolt write by Daniel J. Harrington. This book was released on 2009-11-01. The Maccabean Revolt available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Day of Atonement
Day of Atonement - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Day of Atonement write by David DeSilva. This book was released on 2015-06-27. Day of Atonement available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the blank pages between Malachi and Matthew, the course of an entire nation was changed... His brother, the high priest Honiah, enjoyed the authority of the high priesthood, and all important decisions needed his approval. But it was Jason who was shaping the future of Jerusalem and with it, all Judea. He breathed in again, imagining that he could feel the wave of destiny impelling him forward toward his vision as he exhaled... The Greeks have taken over the world, but Jerusalem is still the same backwater city Jason has always known. He wants to help his hometown rise to a new age of prosperity and influence. If that means stretching the terms of the city’s divine covenant, so be it. But how far is he willing to go to achieve Greek greatness for this Jewish city? It will take the willingness of a handful of Jews to die rather than violate the covenant in order to turn the tide back to God. Written by an internationally recognized expert in the period between the Testaments, Day of Atonement invites readers into Judea during the tumultuous years leading up to the Maccabean Revolt. It was this pivotal decade that reminded Jews of the centrality of the covenant to their national security and taught them that the covenant was worth dying for. The story is so foundational, it is still told every year at Hanukkah. The lessons learned during this turbulent time also shed light on just what was at stake in the ministry of Jesus, whose radical message seemed to threaten the covenant once again. Day of Atonement joins the perennially successful novels Pontius Pilate and The Flames of Rome by renowned historian Paul Maier on Kregel’s premier list of captivating and historically accurate biblical novels.
Tales of High Priests and Taxes
Tales of High Priests and Taxes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tales of High Priests and Taxes write by Sylvie Honigman. This book was released on 2021-03-16. Tales of High Priests and Taxes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the wake of the conquests of Alexander the Great, the ancient world of the Bible—the ancient Near East—came under Greek rule, and in the land of Israel, time-old traditions met Greek culture. But with the accession of King Antiochos IV, the soft power of culture was replaced with armed conflict, and soon the Jews rebelled against their imperial masters, as recorded in the Biblical books of the Maccabees. Whereas most scholars have dismissed the biblical accounts of religious persecution and cultural clash, Sylvie Honigman combines subtle literary analysis with deep historical insight to show how their testimony can be reconciled with modern historical analysis by conversing with the biblical authors, so to speak, in their own language to understand the ways they described their experiences. Honigman contends that these stories are not mere fantasies but genuine attempts to cope with the massacre that followed the rebellion by giving it new meaning. This reading also discloses fresh political and economic factors.
The Wars of the Maccabees
The Wars of the Maccabees - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Wars of the Maccabees write by John D. Grainger. This book was released on 2012-03-19. The Wars of the Maccabees available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. By the early second century BC, Israel had long been under the rule of the Hellenistic Seleucid Empire. But the policy of deliberate Hellenization and suppression of Jewish religious practices by Antiochus IV, sparked a revolt in 167 BC which was led initially by Judah Maccabee and later by his brothers and their descendants. Relying on guerrilla tactics the growing insurrection repeatedly took on the sophisticated might of the Seleucid army with mixed, but generally successful, results, establishing the Maccabees as the Hasmonean Dynasty of rulers over a once-more independent Israel. (It is Judah Maccabee's ritual cleansing of the Temple after his victories over the Seleucids that is celebrated by Jews every year at Hannukah). Internal disputes weakened the revived state, however, and it eventually fell victim to the Romans who replaced the Seleucids as the local superpower. John D Grainger explains the causes of the revolt and traces the course of the various campaigns of the Maccabees, first against the Seleucids and then the Romans who captured Jerusalem in 63BC and partitioned the kingdom. The last chapters consider the continued Jewish resistance to Roman rule and factional fighting, until the crowning of Herod, marked the end of the Hasmonean dynasty.
Jewish Identity and Politics Between the Maccabees and Bar Kokhba
Jewish Identity and Politics Between the Maccabees and Bar Kokhba - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Jewish Identity and Politics Between the Maccabees and Bar Kokhba write by Benedikt Eckhardt. This book was released on 2011-10-28. Jewish Identity and Politics Between the Maccabees and Bar Kokhba available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Based on an interdisciplinary conference held in Münster, this volume discusses the interrelation between political change and Jewish identity in the three centuries between the Maccabean and the Bar Kokhba revolt (168 BCE – 135 CE).
