The Tobiads and the Maccabees: Hellenism and Power in the Ancient Judean Community
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2013-05
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The Ohio State University
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"The Tobiads and the Maccabees: Hellenism and Power in the Ancient Judean Community" takes a look at the events leading up to the Maccabean revolt and argues that the revolt must be considered as part of a larger struggle within the Judean elite for control that had been going for quite some time. Rather than considering the Maccabean revolt as a purely religious war against Seleucid oppressors, it must be recognized that much of the conflict was in fact a civil war within Judea itself, and was driven by politics as well as religion.
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maccabees, hellenism, tobiads, judaism, hasmonean, hellenistic judaism