TY - BOOK ID - 75035512 TI - 2 Maccabees PY - 2008 SN - 9783110191189 9783110211207 3110211203 9786611990817 661199081X 3110191180 1281990817 9781281990815 PB - Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, DB - UniCat KW - Apocryphal books (Old Testament) KW - Apocryphes (Ancient Testament) KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc. KW - Critique, interprétation, etc KW - Bible. KW - Commentaries. KW - Apocrypha. KW - Hellenism/Jewish Hellenism/Hellenistic Judaism. KW - Jewish history. KW - Juden /Geschichte. KW - Maccabees. KW - Makkabäer (Buch). KW - Martyrdom. KW - RELIGION / Judaism / General. KW - 2 Maccabees (Apocrypha) KW - 2 Machabees (Apocrypha) KW - 2nd Maccabees (Apocrypha) KW - 2nd Machabees (Apocrypha) KW - Maccabees, 2nd (Apocrypha) KW - Machabees, 2nd (Apocrypha) KW - Makabim 2 KW - Second Maccabees (Apocrypha) KW - Second Machabees (Apocrypha) KW - Sefer ha-Makabim 2 KW - Jerusalem KW - History. KW - 222.9 KW - Makkabeeën KW - Bible UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:75035512 AB - 2 Maccabees is a Jewish work composed during the 2nd century BCE and preserved by the Church. Written in Hellenistic Greek and told from a Jewish-Hellenistic perspective, 2 Maccabees narrates and interprets the ups and downs of events that took place in Jerusalem prior to and during the Maccabean revolt: institutionalized Hellenization and the foundation of Jerusalem as a polis; the persecution of Jews by Antiochus Epiphanes, accompanied by famous martyrdoms; and the rebellion against Seleucid rule by Judas Maccabaeus. 2 Maccabees is an important source both for the events it describes and for the values and interests of the Judaism of the Hellenistic diaspora that it reflects - which are often quite different from those represented by its competitor, 1 Maccabees. ER -