I Maccabees (The Anchor Bible, Vol. 41)

The Apocrypha......Page 5
Preface......Page 7
Contents......Page 9
List of Illustrations......Page 13
Principal Abbreviations......Page 15
INTRODUCTION......Page 21
I. The Content and Character of Our Two Books......Page 23
The First Book of Maccabees......Page 24
The Second Book of Maccabees......Page 47
II. The Extant Sources of First and Second Maccabees......Page 57
1. The Testament of Moses......Page 59
2. Enoch lxxxv-xc......Page 60
3. Daniel 7-12......Page 62
III. Josephus and the Work of Onias IV......Page 75
IV. The Date and Setting of First and Second Maccabees in the Polemics of the Hasmonaean Period......Page 82
Jewish Opposition to the Hasmonaeans......Page 84
V. Sources of First and Second Maccabees No Longer Extant......Page 110
VI. What Really Happened: the Civic and Religious Policies of Antiochus IV......Page 124
VII. What Really Happened: Chronological Table......Page 181
VIII. The Witnesses to the Text......Page 195
Signs and Abbreviations Used in Giving the Witnesses to the Text of First Maccabees......Page 199
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 200
TRANSLATION AND NOTES......Page 207
I. The Hellenistic Empire from Alexander to Antiochus IV (1:1-10)......Page 209
II. The Jewish Hellenizers (1:11-15)......Page 219
III. The Victories of Antiochus IV in Egypt (169 B.C.E.) (1:16-19)......Page 222
IV. Antiochus IV Punishes the Jews (1:20-64)......Page 225
V. Mattathias' Act of Zeal (2:1-26)......Page 249
VI. Mattathias' Guerrilla Campaign (2:27-48)......Page 254
VII. Mattathias' Last Words (2:49-70)......Page 258
VIII. Judas' Early Victories (3:1-26)......Page 263
IX. The King Marches Eastward (3:27-37)......Page 269
X. Judas Defeats Nicanor and Gorgias (3:38-4:25)......Page 276
XI. Lysias Fails to Crush Judas' Band (4:26-35)......Page 287
XII. The Restoration of the Temple (4:36-61)......Page 292
XIII. Wars with Hostile Neighbors (5:1-68)......Page 309
XIV. The Death of Antiochus IV (6:1-17)......Page 326
XV. The Expedition of Antiochus V and Lysias (6:18-63)......Page 332
XVI. The High Priest Alcimus and the Campaign of Nicanor (7:1-50)......Page 346
XVII. The Alliance with Rome (8:1-32)......Page 364
XVIII. The Death of Judas (9:1-22)......Page 390
XIX. Jonathan Succeeds Judas (9:23-31)......Page 396
XX. Jonathan as Guerrilla Chieftain (9:32-73)......Page 398
XXI. Alexander Balas Makes Jonathan High Priest (10:1-21)......Page 416
XXII. Jonathan Grows in Power (10:22-66)......Page 422
XXIII. Jonathan Defeats Apollonius (10:67-89)......Page 438
XXIV. The Fall of Alexander Balas (11:1-19)......Page 443
XXV. Demetrius II Honors Jonathan and the Jews (11:20-37)......Page 449
XXVI. Jonathan Breaks with Demetrius II (11:3 8-59 )......Page 454
XXVII. Victories under Antiochus VI (11:60-74)......Page 461
XXVIII. Diplomacy with Rome and Sparta (12:1-23 )......Page 464
XXIX. Further Gains under Antiochus VI (12:24-38 )......Page 483
XXX. Tryphon Treacherously Captures Jonathan (12:39-53)......Page 486
XXXI. Simon Leads the Jews to Liberty (13:1-42)......Page 490
XXXII. Further Victories under Simon (13:43-53)......Page 501
XXXIII. Simon's Glory (14:1-49)......Page 504
XXXIV. Simon is Bold to Antiochus VII (15:1-36)......Page 530
XXXV. Simon and Sons Rout Kendebaios (15:37-16:10)......Page 538
XXXVI. Simon's Death (16:11-24)......Page 543
MAPS......Page 547
I. The Forms of the Seleucid Era Used in First Maccabees......Page 560
II. The Form of the Seleucid Era Used in Second Maccabees......Page 564
III. Epistle 2......Page 565
IV. How Epistles 1 and 2 Came to Stand at the Head of Second Maccabees......Page 571
V. How Josephus Interpreted Daniel and Rewrote First Maccabees 1:20-64......Page 578
VI. Why Josephus Departed from the Chronology of First Maccabees 7-16......Page 589
The Jewish Months......Page 594
INDEXES......Page 595
I. Topical Index to the Introduction, Commentary, and Appendices......Page 597
II. Index of References to the Bible, the Apocrypha, and the Pseudepigrapha......Page 608
Key to the Text......Page 613