Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Transliteration of Hebrew
- Acknowledgements
- Prologue
- PART I HISTORICAL EVALUATION
- PART II ACCOUNTS OF THE BATTLES: INTRODUCTION, TEXT AND COMMENTARY
- PART III APPENDICES
- A The infantry Royal Guard in the Seleucid army
- B ma'arāḵā (= formation) and fālanḵs in the Hebrew original of I Maccabees
- C Was a Seleucid military settlement established in Jerusalem?
- D The location and history of the Seleucid citadel (the Akra) in Jerusalem
- E The chronology of Antiochus Epiphanes' expedition to the eastern satrapies
- F Defensive war on the Sabbath according to the Books of the Maccabees
- G The ceremony at Mizpah and the chapter on ‘(the Priest) Anointed for Battle’ in the mishnaic tractate Sotah
- H The Babylonian Jews and the Galatians
- I The geographical background and chronological sequence of the clashes with Timotheus in the Second Book of the Maccabees
- J The negotiations between the Jews and the Seleucid authorities in the reigns of Antiochus Epiphanes and Antiochus Eupator
- K The chronology of Lysias' second expedition
- L The route of Bacchides' second expedition to Judaea
- EXCURSUS
- Plates
- Abbreviations
- References
- Indexe locorum
- General index
- Index of Greek terms
- Index of Hebrew words and phrases
J - The negotiations between the Jews and the Seleucid authorities in the reigns of Antiochus Epiphanes and Antiochus Eupator
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 August 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Transliteration of Hebrew
- Acknowledgements
- Prologue
- PART I HISTORICAL EVALUATION
- PART II ACCOUNTS OF THE BATTLES: INTRODUCTION, TEXT AND COMMENTARY
- PART III APPENDICES
- A The infantry Royal Guard in the Seleucid army
- B ma'arāḵā (= formation) and fālanḵs in the Hebrew original of I Maccabees
- C Was a Seleucid military settlement established in Jerusalem?
- D The location and history of the Seleucid citadel (the Akra) in Jerusalem
- E The chronology of Antiochus Epiphanes' expedition to the eastern satrapies
- F Defensive war on the Sabbath according to the Books of the Maccabees
- G The ceremony at Mizpah and the chapter on ‘(the Priest) Anointed for Battle’ in the mishnaic tractate Sotah
- H The Babylonian Jews and the Galatians
- I The geographical background and chronological sequence of the clashes with Timotheus in the Second Book of the Maccabees
- J The negotiations between the Jews and the Seleucid authorities in the reigns of Antiochus Epiphanes and Antiochus Eupator
- K The chronology of Lysias' second expedition
- L The route of Bacchides' second expedition to Judaea
- EXCURSUS
- Plates
- Abbreviations
- References
- Indexe locorum
- General index
- Index of Greek terms
- Index of Hebrew words and phrases
Summary
The contacts between various elements among the Jews, including the rebels, and the Seleucid authorities at the start of Demetrius Fs reign have been discussed above in a variety of contexts. The understanding of the aims and course of those contacts affected the assessment of the rebel recruitment and resistance capability during the second phase of the Revolt.1 Indeed during the reigns of Antiochus Epiphanes and Antiochus Eupator there were already diplomatic contacts between the Jews and the Antioch authorities. An accurate identification of the parties involved, the establishment of the exact timing, the way they evolved, their progress and outcome can illuminate Judas Maccabaeus’ diplomacy at the end of the first phase of the Revolt, and contribute to the understanding of the nature of the contacts during Demetrius Fs reign. They help also to clarify the political tactics of the Hellenizers and the internal struggle for power in Antioch in which the Jewish question played quite an important role.
The documents in II Maccabees 11
The information on the negotiations during the reigns of Antiochus Epiphanes and his son Antiochus Eupator is included in the four documents inserted in the eleventh chapter of II Maccabees. These documents have been the subject of much research in the last century, mainly because they present many fundamental difficulties which have attracted the attention of philologists as well as historians. The documents follow the description of Lysias’ first campaign, but it is impossible to fit the contents of some of them into the situation that developed immediately after that expedition.
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- Judas MaccabaeusThe Jewish Struggle Against the Seleucids, pp. 516 - 542Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1989