The Composition of II Maccabees: Insights Provided by a Literary topos
II Maccabees is an unusual text, its composition and content are topics of extensive discussion. This paper identifies a literary construct that we attribute to the epitomiser. Its identification allows us to assign various parts of the text to the same hand giving us more insight into both the text...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Peeters
2009
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Biblica
Année: 2009, Volume: 90, Numéro: 4, Pages: 564-572 |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
epitomiser
B Topos B 2 Maccabees B jews relations |
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Volltext (JSTOR) Volltext (kostenfrei) |
| Édition parallèle: | Non-électronique
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| Résumé: | II Maccabees is an unusual text, its composition and content are topics of extensive discussion. This paper identifies a literary construct that we attribute to the epitomiser. Its identification allows us to assign various parts of the text to the same hand giving us more insight into both the text’s composition and the epitomiser’s ability as an historian and writer. Furthermore, the identified literary topos suggests that recent attempts to minimise the extent to which II Maccabees represents any conflict between the Greeks and the Jews, Judaism and Hellenism may need to be reconsidered, some apparent instances of favourable relations between the Jews and other nations (in particular the Hellenes) are not what they seem. |
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| ISSN: | 2385-2062 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Biblica
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