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This book explores the period from the 160s to 63 B.C.E., when the Maccabees ruled the Jews, up to the publication of the Mishnah in the second century C.E.
Author : Shaye J. D. Cohen
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 41,42 MB
Release : 1987-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780664250171
This book explores the period from the 160s to 63 B.C.E., when the Maccabees ruled the Jews, up to the publication of the Mishnah in the second century C.E.
Author : Géza Xeravits
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 31,5 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Religion
ISBN : 900415700X
The volume contains essays on various problems of the early Jewish works: the Books of the Maccabees. Authors include renowned international specialists in the literature and thinking of early Judaism.
Author : Noam Zion
Publisher : Devora Publishing
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 10,10 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781930143319
Pluralistic perspectives on the Festival of lights and profiles in modern Jewish courage.
Author : Catholic Church. National Conference of Catholic Bishops. Bishops' Committee on the Permanent Diaconate
Publisher : USCCB Publishing
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 40,98 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781574553680
The national directory addresses the dimensions and perspectives in the formation of deacons and the model standards for the formation, ministry, and life of deacons in the United States. It is intended as a guideline for formation, ministry, and life of permanent deacons and a directive to be utilized when preparing or updating a diaconate program in formulating policies for the ministry and life of deacons. This volume also includes Basic Standards for Readiness for the formation of permanent deacons in the United States, from the bishops' Committee on the Diaconate, and the committee document Visit of Consultation Teams to Diocesan Permanent Diaconate Formation Programs.
Author : F. F. Bruce
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 39,54 MB
Release : 2018-12-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0830852123
How did the books of the Bible come to be recognized as Holy Scripture? After nearly nineteen centuries the canon of Scripture remains an issue of debate. Adept in both Old and New Testament studies, F. F. Bruce brings the wisdom of a lifetime of reflection and biblical interpretation to bear in addressing the criteria of canonicity, the canon within the canon, and canonical criticism.
Author : Daniel J. Harrington
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 43,63 MB
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0814647820
These accounts of the Maccabean revolt, by which the sons of Mattathias reclaimed the temple of Jerusalem, tell an important story of the founding of the Jewish people. "The Hammerers" is the meaning of the nickname "Maccabees," given to Mattathias's sons, who lived in a time of revolution. Empires struggled for control of Greece, Egypt, and Asia, and the small population of Jews tried to preserve their claim to Judea. The five brothers also made heroic contributions to the practice of Judaism. Their rededication of the temple establishes the annual celebration of Hanukkah, and the martyr stories in Second Maccabees emphasize faithfulness to the law of Moses. The books of First and Second Maccabees are also important for Christians, as in them is told how the Jewish people established the political and religious culture into which Jesus was born. The martyr stories inform the early Christian martyrdoms, and the books are written in Greek, the language in which the Jews of Jesus' time read the Scriptures. As Father Harrington notes, without the Maccabees "the fate of Judaism (and with it Christianity and Islam) was uncertain."
Author : Edward Theodore Chalmers Werner
Publisher : London, Harrap
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 40,43 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN :
Offering a provocative glimpse into a world dominated by traditional rules of etiquette and inhabited by demons, dragon-gods, and spirits, this volume presents a wealth of information illuminating the ideas and beliefs that governed the daily lives of Chinese people long before the revolutions of the 20th century. Engrossing and informative, the book will appeal not only to lovers of folklore but to everyone interested in Chinese art, culture or philosophy. 32 b&w illustrations.
Author : Elias Joseph Bickerman
Publisher :
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 29,50 MB
Release : 1947
Category : Maccabees
ISBN :
Author : David A. deSilva
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 11,55 MB
Release : 2020-11-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1725270706
Fourth Maccabees is a superbly crafted oration that presents a case for the Jewish way of life couched almost entirely in terms of Greek ethical ideals. Its author delights in the Torah, the Law of Moses, as the divinely given path to becoming our best selves now. In this collection of essays spanning two decades of study, David deSilva examines the formative training that produced such an author, the rhetorical crafting and effect of his work, the author's creative use of both Jewish and Greek literary resources, and the book's enduring message and legacy in the Christian church.
Author : Richard Bauckham
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 33,32 MB
Release : 2013-11-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1467463361
This work stands among the most important publications in biblical studies over the past twenty-five years. Richard Bauckham, James Davila, and Alexander Panayotov’s new two-volume collection of Old Testament pseudepigrapha contains many previously unpublished and newly translated texts, complementing James Charlesworth’s Old Testament Pseudepigrapha and other earlier collections. Including virtually all known surviving pseudepigrapha written before the rise of Islam, this volume, among other things, presents the sacred legends and spiritual reflections of numerous long-dead authors whose works were lost, neglected, or suppressed for many centuries. Excellent English translations along with authoritative yet accessible introductions bring those ancient documents to life for readers today.