Jason Staples - The Idea of Israel in Second Temple Judaism
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First Macabes
First macabes is the one book that we find that repeatedly uses israel or israelite terminology to talk about jews. And i think there's a lot of anachronistic language throughout first macabes in general, right? You get, it talks about, you know, the philistines and the canaanites,. It recycles a lot of biblical imagery that would be biblical imagery to its own audience. A aims here to replicate a restored israel, to be the restored israel. The hasmani protagonists as essentially a replicating the heroic and quasi messianic deeds of its, of david and of historical israel. This is a political programme
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