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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主要作者: Morrison, Gary (Author)
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語言:English
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出版: Peeters 2009
In: Biblica
Year: 2009, 卷: 90, 發布: 4, Pages: 564-572
Further subjects:B 慣用語句
B epitomiser
B 2 Maccabees
B jews relations
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總結: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.
ISSN:2385-2062
Contains:Enthalten in: Biblica