Jason Staples - The Idea of Israel in Second Temple Judaism
Biblical World
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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