Passion, persecution, and epiphany in early Jewish literature Allen, Nicholas Peter Legh editor. Jordaan, Pierre Johan editor. Zsengellér, József editor. Taylor & Francis text bibliography Electronic books. enk 2020 2020 monographic eng remote 1 online resource. Introduction -- Passion, Persecution and Epiphany: the David and Bathsheba Affair According to the LXX, Josephus and the Rabbis / Nicholas Peter Legh Allen -- Victorious Victims and Prayers for the deceased: Possible Links Between Conceptual Tension and Progressive Doctrine in 12 Maccabees / Eugene Coetzer -- Did the Devastating Persecution and Reforms of Antiochus IV Epiphanes have an Impact on the LXX Version of Proverbs? / Johann Cook -- Passion, Persecution, and the Strategic Discourse of the Body in 2 Maccabees 7 / Chris L. de Wet -- Martyrs, Religion and Politics / Jan Willem van Henten -- Human and Divine Persecution in the MT and LXX Lamentations 3:52-66 / Gideon R. Kotzé -- Establishing and Maintaining Communal Identity through Food in Times of Persecution: An Interpretation of Daniel 1:8-16" / Manitza Kotzé -- The Death of Antiochus IV Epiphanes In 2 Maccabees 9: Persecution and Epiphany as Dramatic Irony / Pierre Johan Jordaan -- Pathos and the Passions in Josephus's Judaean War / Steve N. Mason -- Let Us Test Him with Cruelty and with Torture (Wisdom 2:19) / Friederich Vincenz Reiterer -- Persecution and Epiphany in 2 Maccabees /Johan Steenkamp -- A Battle of Honour! Persecution in 2 Maccabees 7:1-42 as Part of a Post-War Ritual in a Challenge for Honour to Establish Power and Dominion / Lodewyk Sutton -- Hellenistic Persecutions of the Samaritans According to Josephus Flavius / József Zsengeller. edited by Nicholas Peter Legh Allen, Pierre J. Jordaan, and József Zsengellér. Electronic resource. Includes bibliographical references and index. Nicholas Peter Legh Allen is a professor at the North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus), South Africa. He currently teaches Ancient Cultures. Nicholas is a confirmed transdisciplinarian and accordingly has authored and co-authored, inter alia, six books, more than a score of accredited articles and numerous digital interactive publications on topics including African elephant conservation, sindonology, history of optical technology, Judaica and Early Christian Church history (specialising in Josephus Flavius). He is the originator of the photographic hypothesis for the manufacturing technique employed on the Shroud of Turin (1988). Pierre J. Jordaan is a professor at the North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus), South Africa. He is a founding member of the LXXSA (Association for the Study of the Septuagint in South Africa) and is currently co-leading SACRIA (Septuagint and Cognate Research in Africa) with Nicholas Allen. He has organised several workshops and conferences on the apocrypha/deuterocanonical and was instrumental in the subsequent publication thereof. He has published almost sixty papers in accredited journals and is a rated researcher in South Africa with the National Research Foundation. His particular interest is the Septuagint, specifically the books 2 Maccabees, Judith and Susanna in the Additions to Daniel. József Zsengellér is professor and chair of Biblical Theology and History of Religions at the Theological Faculty of the Kr̀oli Gs̀pr̀ University of the Hungarian Reformed Church in Budapest, Hungary. He is currently the rector of the Kr̀oli Gs̀pr̀ University. He is a Calvinist minister, Hebraist and theologian. His main fields of research are the history, religion and literature of the Samaritans; the religion and literature of early Judaism with a focus on the Deuterocanonical literature; and the textual and canonical history of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. He is author and editor of several books, and has published more than 150 articles and papers in English, German and Hungarian. He also serves as editor and staff of three Hungarian and one international journal (Biblische Notizen). IV, King of Syria Antiochus approximately 215 B.C.-164 B.C Bible Maccabees Criticism, interpretation, etc Judaism History Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D Epiphanies in literature Greek literature Jewish authors History and criticism Jews History 586 B.C.-70 A.D Jews History 70-638 Suffering Religious aspects Judaism 586 B.C.-638 A.D. fast BM176 .P263 2020 296.09/014 Passion, persecution, and epiphany in early Jewish literature Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, [2020] (DLC) 2019042553 9780429352263 0429352263 9781000767032 1000767035 9781000767322 1000767329 9781000766745 1000766748 9780367369828 2019042554 9780429352263 Taylor & Francis http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login?url=https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429352263 NhCcYBP 191008 20200729074245.0 in00004147999