Full title
Collective guilt and self-sacrifice in Sophocles' Antigone and in II & IV Maccabees - preliminary cultural-critical remarks : Septuagint conference articles (LXXSA 2014)
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Research notes
MDE/reader checked/28/12/2015
Reference type
Year
2015
Journal / Book Title || Series Title
Journal for Semitics
Volume
24
Issue / Series Volume
1
Pages
198-215
Work type
Label
31/08/2015
Abstract
Jewish-Hellenistic authors use language and ideas of ancient Greek tragedies in order to express their own religious and theological standpoints and make them accessible to the Greek-speaking world. This article highlights the significance of Sophocles' Antigone for a cultural-critical understanding of the concepts of collective guilt and self-sacrifice in II Macc 6-7 and IV Macc.
Primary Texts: Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha
Passage
6-7