The Use and Function of Scripture in 1 Maccabees /

Choi, Dongbin,

The Use and Function of Scripture in 1 Maccabees / by Dongbin Choi. - 268 p. ; - Library of Second Temple Studies 98 .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Dongbin Choi argues that the book of 1 Maccabees is written with a linguistic technique that utilizes earlier Jewish texts in various ways in order to promote the religiopolitical agendas of its author. Choi offers a philological and thematic analyses on this scriptural language, and engages in the dialogue between the traditional view that tends to simply treat 1 Maccabees as a religious writing, and the radical view that considers it as a political propaganda"--

9780567695420 9780567696458

2020026895


Bible.--Maccabees, 1st--Criticism, interpretation, etc.


Jews--History--586 B.C.-70 A.D.

BS1825.52 / .C46 2020

B62.1 / J826

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