Library Catalog
Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com

Judaism defined : Mattathias and the destiny of his people / Benjamin Edidin Scolnic.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in JudaismPublisher: Lanham : University Press of America, Inc., 2010Description: 1 online resource (v, 246 pages)Content type:
Media type:
Carrier type:
ISBN:
  • 9780761851189
  • 0761851186
  • 1299135838
  • 9781299135833
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Judaism definedDDC classification:
  • 229.73067
LOC classification:
  • BS580.M38
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Scholarly Views of Mattathias; Chapter 3: Mattathias's Act of Rebellion; Chapter 4: Mattathias and the Priestly Clan of Jehoiarib; Chapter 5: Mattathias and the Ambitions of the Maccabees; Chapter 6: Mattathias and the Meaning of Circumcision; Chapter 7: Mattathias and Defensive War on the Sabbath; Chapter 8: The Nature and Provenance of 1 Maccabees; Chapter 9: Mattathias and the Definition of Judaism; Selected Bibliography
Action note:
  • digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve
Summary: This book explores the story of Mattathias in 1Maccabees and asserts that Mattathias defined Judaism and Jewishness for his time. Mattathias's actions of zealous violence, as controversial as they were viewed to be in both his day and today, were primarily for the preservation of his religion and people.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number URL Status Notes Barcode
eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)537037

Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-246).

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Scholarly Views of Mattathias; Chapter 3: Mattathias's Act of Rebellion; Chapter 4: Mattathias and the Priestly Clan of Jehoiarib; Chapter 5: Mattathias and the Ambitions of the Maccabees; Chapter 6: Mattathias and the Meaning of Circumcision; Chapter 7: Mattathias and Defensive War on the Sabbath; Chapter 8: The Nature and Provenance of 1 Maccabees; Chapter 9: Mattathias and the Definition of Judaism; Selected Bibliography

This book explores the story of Mattathias in 1Maccabees and asserts that Mattathias defined Judaism and Jewishness for his time. Mattathias's actions of zealous violence, as controversial as they were viewed to be in both his day and today, were primarily for the preservation of his religion and people.

English.

Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL

Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. MiAaHDL

Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. MiAaHDL

http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212

digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL