The volume contains essays on various problems of the early Jewish works: the Books of the Maccabees. Authors include renowned international specialists in the

This volume publishes papers delivered at the Second International Conference on the Deuterocanonical Books (Pápa, Hungary). This conference dealt with the Boo

The volume contains essays on various problems of the early Jewish works: the Books of the Maccabees. Authors include renowned international specialists in the

In the wake of the conquests of Alexander the Great, the ancient world of the Bible—the ancient Near East—came under Greek rule, and in the land of Israel,

This book explores the period from the 160s to 63 B.C.E., when the Maccabees ruled the Jews, up to the publication of the Mishnah in the second century C.E.