The Use and Function of Scripture in 1 Maccabees / by Dongbin Choi.

By:

Choi, Dongbin [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Library of Second Temple Studies ; 98Publisher: New York : T&T Clark, 2021Description: 268 pContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780567695420
9780567696458

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Additional physical formats: Online version:: The use and function of scripture in 1 MaccabeesDDC classification:

B62.1 23 J826

LOC classification:

BS1825.52 .C46 2020

Summary: "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"-- Provided by publisher.

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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"-- Provided by publisher.

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