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Article: Studies on the Hasmonean Period.
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- The Journal of the American Oriental Society
- Article date:
- January 1, 1994
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This stimulating collection of essays is (with some updating, to be sure) two removes from the original essays, all of which appeared in Hebrew at various times between 1963 and 1976 and which were collected in a Hebrew volume in 1980. No attempt is made at systematic coverage of the topic; rather, there are individual essays on the Hasmonean revolt, in modern historiography; holy war and visions of redemption in the Hasmonean period; Daniel and his friends in exile; the idea of the servant of G-d in the book of Daniel; Simeon ben Shetah and Alexander Jannaeus; the Psalms of Solomon, the Hasmonean decline and Christianity; and the Great Sanhedrin in vision and reality. ...