The Torah in 1Maccabees: A Literary Critical Approach to the Text

Francis Borchardt

Published by De Gruyter 2014

The Torah in 1Maccabees

A Literary Critical Approach to the Text

Francis Borchardt

Volume 19 in the series Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110323481

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This volume addresses two pivotal questions surrounding the composition of 1Maccabees. It sets out to discern the place and function of the torah within the community described by the book. However, before addressing the main problem, the author must first determine the composition history of the text. Given that the former orthodoxy of a unitary authorship seems to be breaking down, and no consensus has taken its place, a literary critical investigation occupies a necessary and lengthy portion of the work. Once a recommendation for the book’s composition history is reached, attitudes toward the inherited Judean tradition are described in each of the strata discovered. The resulting study reveals a wide variety of opinions on the Judean traditions and their function in society. This contributes to the current trend in scholarship of the Hellenistic period questioning the dichotomy between Judaism and Hellenism by demonstrating the different attitudes within even one text.

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Francis Borchardt, Lutheran Theological Seminary Hong Kong, China.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Acknowledgements Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Part I
I Introduction: The Torah in 1Maccabees Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
II Literary Criticism of 1Maccabees Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
Part II
III The Nomos and its Place in 1Maccabees Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189
IV Concluding Remarks Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
Appendix: Text and Translation of the Strata Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	330
Index of Modern Authors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	337
Index of Ancient Sources Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	339

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Pages
- Front matter: 14
- Main content: 352
Keywords: Hellenistic Judaism; Hasmoneans; Apocrypha

eBook

Published: February 27, 2014
ISBN: 9783110323481

Hardcover

Published: February 17, 2014
ISBN: 9783110322989