Language:
English
Year of publication:
2020
Titel der Quelle:
Classical Quarterly
Angaben zur Quelle:
70,1 (2020) 437-440
Keywords:
Maccabees, 2nd Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Maccabees, 2nd Criticism, Redaction
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Greek literature, Hellenistic Jewish authors
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History and criticism
Abstract:
In the course of describing the events of the 160s b.c.e., 2 Maccabees presents the texts of four letters: the Seleucid general Lysias to the Jews granting some concessions and referring their other demands to the king (11.16–21); two letters of Antiochus, to Lysias (11.22–6) and to the Jews (11.27–33), granting various concessions; and Roman envoys to the Jews (11.34–8) endorsing Lysias’ concessions. The third and fourth letters have at their ends (suspiciously) the same date, 15 Xanthikos of Seleucid year 148, c. March 164 b.c.e. The second has no date. The first, Lysias’ letter, is dated ἔτους ἑκατοστοῦ τεσσαρακοστοῦ ὀγδόου, διοσκορινθίου τετράδι καὶ εἰκάδι: year 148 on the 24th of a month; but the month name, standardly printed as Διὸς Κορινθίου, is impossible.
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