Rediscoveries in Judaism: The Temple and the Return to Israel in 2 Macc 1:10–2:18
Updated by:
Shiran Shevah
Research notes:
SHS/not checked/14/11/2019
Reference type:
Book section
year:
2019
Full title:
Rediscoveries in Judaism: The Temple and the Return to Israel in 2 Macc 1:10–2:18
Journal / Book Title || Series Title:
On Wings of Prayer: Sources of Jewish Worship; Essays in Honor of Professor Stefan C. Reif on the Occasion of his Seventy-fifth Birthday
Issue / Series Volume:
44
Series Title:
Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Studies
Editor(s):
Nuria Calduch-Benages
Michael W. Duggan
Dalia Marx
Place of Publication:
Berlin/Boston
Publisher:
de Gruyter
Pages:
83-100
Work type:
Essay/Monograph
Abstract:
The second festal letter in 2 Maccabees elaborates on the significance of the temple cleansing in the epitome by rewriting the death of Antiochus IV Epiphanes and recasting the profile of Judas Maccabeus. Imaginative storytelling unfolds the history of the temple as a continuum that runs from the exodus to the Hasmonean era. The contemplation of the past opens up to the future with the prospect of all Jews returning to Israel. Playful narrative techniques about finding what had been hidden invite the audience to anticipate the future as they orient their gaze toward Jerusalem and celebrate the festival of temple cleansing.
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/view/books/9783110630282/9783110630282-007/9783110630282-007.xml
Label:
09/12/2019
Record number:
105 922