The Festival of Dionysus in 2 Macc 6:7b
Updated by:
Shiran Shevah
Research notes:
SHS/not checked/20/05/2018
Reference type:
Journal Article
year:
2018
Full title:
The Festival of Dionysus in 2 Macc 6:7b
Journal / Book Title || Series Title:
Journal for the Study of Judaism
Volume:
49
Issue / Series Volume:
2
Abbreviated Series Name:
JSJ
Pages:
153-164
Work type:
Essay/Monograph
Abstract:
Recent scholarship has maintained that the Dionysian rites of 2 Macc 6:7b are not historical because evidence of this cult in Seleukid official policy is seen as meager at best. A review of Antiochus IV’s coinage, his procession at Daphne, his designation of Geron the Athenian as enforcer of the imposed cult, and other allusions to promiscuity in the Temple may indicate that this reference to Dionysian practices is at least plausible.
URL:
http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/15700631-12491200
Label:
28/05/2018
Record number:
103 626