Collective guilt and self-sacrifice in Sophocles' Antigone and in II & IV Maccabees - preliminary cultural-critical remarks : Septuagint conference articles (LXXSA 2014)

Updated by: 
Michal Drori Elmalem
Research notes: 
MDE/reader checked/28/12/2015
Reference type: 
Journal Article
Author(s): 
Dafni, Evangelia G.
year: 
2015
Full title: 

Collective guilt and self-sacrifice in Sophocles' Antigone and in II & IV Maccabees - preliminary cultural-critical remarks : Septuagint conference articles (LXXSA 2014)

Journal / Book Title || Series Title: 
Journal for Semitics
Volume: 
24
Issue / Series Volume: 
1
Pages: 
198-215
Work type: 
Essay/Monograph
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: 
Composition / Author: 
2 Maccabees
Passage: 
6-7
Label: 
31/08/2015
Record number: 
100 832