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By Stephen Anthony Cummins

ISBN-10: 0511018053

ISBN-13: 9780511018053

ISBN-10: 052166201X

ISBN-13: 9780521662017

The so-called "Antioch Incident"--the disagreement among the apostles Peter and Paul recorded in Galatians 2.11-21--continues to be a resource of controversy in scholarly in addition to well known estimations of the rising early church. This cutting edge interpretation of the development argues that the vital factor at stake in Antioch--whether the Torah or Jesus Christ determines who're the folks of God--gains nice readability and strength whilst considered in terms of a sort of Judaism is familiar with as Maccabean martyr theology.

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30 Maccabean martyrdom sentative heroes would, even in and through their su¨ering, be delivered and vindicated by their sovereign God. Israel and her conquering heroes: the saviours of the people of Israel in 1 Maccabees43 I have already drawn extensively from 1 Maccabees in providing a historical reconstruction of the Maccabean crisis. In what follows our attention is restricted to a brief estimation of the latent theological perspective of what is otherwise an apologia for the Hasmonean dynasty (see 1 Macc.

67 See 2 Macc. 6, 8±9). 68 2 Macc. 13; cf. the reference to `the Hebrews' at 2 Macc. 31, attesting to the common cause of both tortured and battle-fallen martyrs. 69 Nicanor and Judas ®rst `exchange pledges of friendship [douÄn—i k—iÁ l—˜eiÄ n dexi—Âv]' and meet `privately [k—t9 iÈ di —n]' to agree terms, with mutual admiration ensuing (so 2 Macc. 19±25). Formative texts and traditions 37 with which to strike down his adversaries (2 Macc. 36), so now God manifests his righteousness in Judas' triumphant conquest of Nicanor (2 Macc.

385. 7 Tcherikover, Hellenistic Civilization and the Jews, pp. 186±203. 8 Goldstein, I Maccabees, pp. 104±60; with modi®cations in II Maccabees, pp. 104±12. 9 Scurlock, `167 BCE: Hellenism or Reform'. 10 Bringmann, Hellenistische Reform und Religionsverfolgung in JudaÈa; more succinctly, `Die Verfolgung der juÈdischen Religion durch Antiochos IV'. 11 Gruen, `Hellenism and Persecution: Antiochus IV and the Jews', pp. 261±4. 22 Maccabean martyrdom The enormity of the crisis itself cautions against too narrow an explanation.

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