The Temple Archive Used for the Fabrication of 1 Maccabees 10.25b–45.
Chapter 10 of I Maccabees tells of the competing efforts of Seleucid King Demetrius I Soter and his contender, Alexander I Balas, to win the support of the Jews in Judea. Verses 25b-45 quote a letter, allegedly sent by the king, containing numerous overwhelming promises. Following an accepted view i...
| Publicado en: | Jewish Quarterly Review Vol. 108; no. 4; pp. 502 - 517 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=133112201&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 133112201 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 00216682 2HA jtl: Jewish Quarterly Review issn: 00216682 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Fall2018 vid: 108 iid: 4 pid: 4636 pub: University of Pennsylvania Press artinfo: ui: 133112201 10.1353/jqr.2018.0031 ppf: 502 ppct: 15 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 295KB tig: atl: The Temple Archive Used for the Fabrication of 1 Maccabees 10.25b–45. aug: au: Orian, Matan su: Maccabees Jews Old Testament Religions Christianity sug: subj: Maccabees Jews Old Testament Religions Christianity keyword: Antiochus III Demetrius I Soter fake documents Hasmoneans history as literature I Maccabees II Maccabees irony Jerusalem Temple archive Seleucids ab: Chapter 10 of I Maccabees tells of the competing efforts of Seleucid King Demetrius I Soter and his contender, Alexander I Balas, to win the support of the Jews in Judea. Verses 25b-45 quote a letter, allegedly sent by the king, containing numerous overwhelming promises. Following an accepted view in research, which regards the letter as a fake, this paper raises the possibility that it was written as an ironic text, the irony being at times evident and at others more covert. The article suggests that in the composition of this array of promises, its author consulted, collected, and borrowed elements, even entire clauses from several other, authentic, Seleucid letters sent to the Jews in Judea. Of these letters, the resemblance in content between the text in question and two letters of Antiochus III, quoted by Josephus in book 12 of his Antiquity of the Jews, is especially striking. The apparent reliance on such authentic Seleucid documents, which are not quoted in I Maccabees, indicates that the author of the letter and the author of I Maccabees used the same official Temple archive, and quite likely, are the same person. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of Jewish Quarterly Review is the property of University of Pennsylvania Press and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: Jewish Quarterly Review holder: University of Pennsylvania Press dt: @attributes: year: 2018 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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