Tales of high priests and taxes [electronic resource] : the books of the Maccabees and the Judean rebellion against Antiochos IV.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Ioudaismos: 1 and 2 Maccabees as dynastic history -- Introduction to Part I: "Religion" and "politics:" delineating semantic fields -- 1. 2 Maccabees as dynastic history -- 2. Temple foundation and royal legitimacy: a narrative pattern and its message -- 3. Ioudaismos as the legitimate social order founded by Judas Maccabee -- 4. Royal high priests and Temple foundation: the narrative pattern and the Hasmonean political order -- Part II. Hellenismos: the causes of the rebellion in 1 and 2 Maccabees. 5. Hellenismos: the social order of the wicked rivals in 1 and 2 Maccabees -- 6. The "religious persecution" in light of the ancient Judean cultural and narrative codes -- 7. The causes of the rebellion according to 1 and 2 Maccabees -- Part III. History: the Judean rebellion in historical perspective, 200-164 BCE -- 8. Judea and Koil?-Syria and Phoinik? under Antiochos III (200-187 BCE) -- 9. Seleukos IV Philopator and the revision of Antiochos III's settlement in Judea (187-175 BCE) -- 10. Judea under Antiochos IV Epiphanes: the reforms (175-ca. 172 BCE) -- 11. Judea under Antiochos IV Epiphanes: the suppression of the rebellion (169/8-164 BCE) -- Appendix A. The literary composition of 2 Maccabees -- Appendix B. The literary composition of 1 Maccabees.

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