Table of Contents

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents IX
3. Introduction
4. I. Subject, Purpose and Date 3
5. II. Sources and Development 16
6. III. Historical Worth and Leading Ideas 38
7. IV. Between the Bible and Greek Literature 57
8. V. Language and Style 67
9. VI. Reception and Text 85
10. VII. Literature 97
11. VIII. Abbreviations and Bibliography 98
12. Translation and Commentary
13. Introductory Letters (1:1–2:18) 129
14. Author’s Preface (2:19–32) 170
15. Chapter III 181
16. Chapter IV 207
17. Chapter V 247
18. Chapter VI 270
19. Chapter VII 296
20. Chapter VIII 320
21. Chapter IX 349
22. Chapter X 369
23. Chapter XI 392
24. Chapter XII 414
25. Chapter XIII 445
26. Chapter XIV 463
27. Chapter XV 492
28. Appendices
29. Appendix 1: On the Letters in Chapters 1–2 519
30. Appendix 2: “to register the people of Jerusalem as Antiochenes” (4:9) 530
31. Appendix 3: “his second invasion” (5:1) 533
32. Appendix 4: “as the residents of the place requested” (6:2) 537
33. Appendix 5: A Ptolemaic Account of Antiochus’ Decrees? (2 Macc 6:7) 541
34. Appendix 6: “the tribute (still owed) to the Romans” (2 Macc 8:10, 36) 544
35. Appendix 7: The Battle Against the Galatians (8:20) 546
36. Appendix 8: “their own foods” (11:31) 549
37. Appendix 9: “to be his successor” (14:26) 551
38. Appendix 10: “the Syrian Language” (15:36) 553
39. Appendix 11: “and ever since the city was taken over by the Hebrews it has been in their hands” (15:37) 556
40. Backmatter 561