The Torah in 1Maccabees: A Literary Critical Approach to the Text

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This volume addresses two pivotal questions surrounding the composition of 1Maccabees.  It sets out to discern the place and function of the torah within the community described by the book.  However, before addressing the main problem, the author must first determine the composition history of the text.  Given that the former orthodoxy of a unitary authorship seems to be breaking down, and no consensus has taken its place, a literary critical investigation occupies a necessary and lengthy portion of the work.  Once a recommendation for the book’s composition history is reached, attitudes toward the inherited Judean tradition are described in each of the strata discovered.  The resulting study reveals a wide variety of opinions on the Judean traditions and their function in society.  This contributes to the current trend in scholarship of the Hellenistic period questioning the dichotomy between Judaism and Hellenism by demonstrating the different attitudes within even one text. Part I I Introduction: The Torah in 1 Maccabees- 1.1 Aim- 1.2 Previous Studies- 1.2.1 The Law in Scholarship of 1 Maccabees- 1.2.2 The (dis)Unity of IMaccabees in Scholarship- 1.3 A Restatement of Aims- 1.4 Methods and Premises- Partitio- II Literary Criticism of 1 Maccabees- II.1 lMaccl- 1:11-15- 1:43 1:52 1:62-63- Implications- II.2 IMacc 2- 2:23-26- 2:42-44- Implications- II.3 IMacc 3- 3:3-9- Implications- II.4 IMacc 5- 5:55-62- 5:18-19- Implications- II.5 IMacc 6- 6:21-27- 6:42-46- Implications- II.6 IMacc 7- 7:5-7- 7:9*- 7:12*- 7:13-14- 7:16d-17- 7:19 7:20a-b- 7:21-25- Implications- II.7 IMacc 8- Implications- II.8 IMacc 9- 9:01 9:23-24- 9:34-42- 9:54-61- 0.422916667 9:73d- Implications- II.9 IMacc 10- 10:3-9, 15*. 25b-45- 10:12-14- 10:14 10:61, 64- Implications- II.10 1 Maccabees 11- 11:21, 25- II.11 IMacc 12- 12:1-23- Implications- II.12 IMacc 13- 13:25-30- 13:41-42- Implications- II.13 IMacc 14- 14:1-3- 14:4-15- II.14 Organizing the Additions: The Literary Layers of 1 Maccabees- Classification of the Secondary Material- Group 1- Group 2- Group 3- Historical Arguments- IMaccO-The Internal Opposition Redaction- IMaccD - The Documentarian Redaction- IMaccH - The Hasmonean Legend Redaction- Conclusions- Part II- III The Nomos and its Place in 1 Maccabees- III.1Meaningful Vocabulary:- III.2 Religious Value and Significance of the Concept of the Law- Is the Nomos supreme in the hierarchy of religious values?- IMaccG- IMaccD- IMaccO- IMaccH- Does the nomos decide whether characters are good or evil?- IMaccG- IMaccD- IMaccO- IMaccH- Does the law assume the other traditional religious categories?- IMaccG- IMaccD- IMaccO- IMaccH- Is the Torah Israel’s Way of Life?- IMaccG- IMaccD- IMaccO- IMaccH- Is the Torah a Fence?- IMaccG- IMaccD- IMaccO- IMaccH- Is the Torah the State Law of judea?- IMaccG- IMaccD- IMaccO- IMaccH- III.3 Summary: The Law and Laws in IMaccabees- IMaccG- IMaccD- IMaccO- IMaccH- IV Concluding Remarks- Appendix: Text and Translation of the Strata- Chapter 1- IMaccG- IMaccO- IMaccG- IMaccO- IMaccG- IMaccO- IMaccG- IMaccO- IMaccG- Chapter 2- IMaccH- IMaccG- IMaccO- IMaccG- Chapter 3- IMaccH- IMaccG- Chapter 4- Chapter 5- IMaccH- IMaccG- IMaccH- IMaccG- Chapter 6- IMaccO- IMaccG- IMaccH- IMaccG- Chapter 7- IMaccO- IMaccG- IMaccO- IMaccG- IMaccO- IMaccG- IMaccO- IMaccG- IMaccO- IMaccG- IMaccO- IMaccG- IMaccO- IMaccG- Chapter 8- IMaccD- Chapter 9- IMaccG- IMaccO- IMaccG- IMaccO- IMaccG- IMaccH- IMaccG- IMaccO- IMaccG- IMaccO- IMaccG- IMaccO- Chapter 10- IMaccG- IMaccD- IMaccG- IMaccO- IMaccD- IMaccG- IMaccD- IMaccG- IMaccO- IMaccG- IMaccO- IMaccG- Chapter 11- IMaccO- IMaccG- IMaccO- IMaccG- Chapter 12- IMaccD- IMaccG- Chapter 13- IMaccH- IMaccG- IMaccD- IMaccG- Chapter 14- IMaccD- IMaccH- IMaccD- Chapter 15- Chapter 16- Bibliography- Index of Modern Authors- Index of Ancient Sources