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The God of the MaccabeesElias J. Bickerman

Judaism: Torah, Talmud and Tradition

The God of the Maccabees

Studies on the Meaning and Origin of the Maccabean Revolt

by Elias J. Bickerman · Horst R. Moehring (trans.)

The English translation of Bickerman's influential German study of 1937. It argues that the persecution under Antiochus IV was instigated by radical Jewish Hellenizers in Jerusalem rather than by the king's own religious policy.

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