2 Maccabees (Commentaries on Early Jewish Literature) (Commentaries on Early Jewish Literature)

                                Table of Contents

                                 INTRODUCTION

  I.      Subject, Purpose and Date                                         3
  II.     Sources and Development                                          16
  III.    Historical Worth and Leading Ideas                               38
  TV.     Between the Bible and Greek Literature                           57
  V.      Language and Style                                               67
  VI.     Reception and Text                                               85
  VII.    Literature                                                       97
  VIII.   Abbreviations and Bibliography                                   98


                       TRANSLATION AND COMMENTARY

  Introductory Letters (1:1-2:18)                                         129
  Author's Preface (2:19-32)                                              170
  Chapter                                ffl                              181
  Chapter IV                                                              207
  Chapter V                                                               247
  Chapter VI                                                              270
  Chapter VII                                                             296
  Chapter VIII                                                            320
  Chapter IX                                                              349
  Chapter X                                                               369
  Chapter XI                                                              392
  Chapter Xn                                                              414
  Chapter XIII                                                            445
  Chapter XIV                                                             463
  Chapter XV                                                              492




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                              APPENDICES

Appendix 1:  On the Letters in Chapters 1-2                         519
Appendix 2:  "to register the people of Jerusalem as
             Antiochenes" (4:9)                                     530
Appendix 3: "his second invasion" (5:1)                             533
Appendix 4: "as the residents of the place requested" (6:2) . . . . 537
Appendix 5: A Ptolemaic Account of Antiochus' Decrees?
             (2 Macc 6:7)                                           541
Appendix 6: "the tribute (still owed) to the Romans"
             (2 Macc 8:10, 36)                                      544
Appendix 7: M. Stern, "The Battle Against the Galatians" (8:20) . 546
Appendix 8: "their own foods" (11:31)                               549
Appendix 9: "to be his successor" (14:26)                           551
Appendix 10: "the Syrian Language" (15:36)                          553
Appendix 11: "and ever since the city was taken over by the
             Hebrews it has been in their hands" (15:37)            556


                                 INDICES

Index of References                                                561
Index of Names and Subjects                                        596
Index of Authors                                                   608