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The Hasmoneans Ideology, Archaeology, Identity

:	Eyal Regev
:	The Hasmoneans Ideology, Archaeology, Identity
:	Vandenhoeck& Ruprecht Unipress
:	9783647550435
:	Journal of Ancient Judaism. Supplements
:	1
:	CHF 117.40
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:	Allgemeines, Lexika
:	English

:	340
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The first two chapters discuss the religious practices of the Hasmoneans. Chapter 1 explores why the Maccabees regarded Hanukkah as a festival of renewal, specifically of those traditions related to the Temple cult. Chapter 2 examines the manner in which the Hasmoneans used the protection and maintenance of the Jewish Temple to legitimize their rule-and how they worked to place the Temple at the center of the Jewish religion. Chapters 3-5 deal with different perspectives in the Hellenistic world on the role of government and royal ideologies. Specifically, chapter 3 explores both the Hellenistic and Jewish contexts for Hasmonean government and kingship. Regev shows how the Hasmonean dynasty built up its religious (in contrast to political) authority, suggesting that the Hasmonean state was not a conventionally Hellenistic one, but rather a 'national' monarchy, closer to Macedonian in type. Chapter 4 attempts to decipher the meaning of the symbols and epigraphs on Hasmonean coins, and examines how both Hellenistic symbols and Jewish concepts were employed to reinforce the dynasty's authority and introduce Jewish 'national' ideas into the populace. Chapter 5 then undertakes a comparative social-archaeological analysis of the Hasmonean palaces in Jericho in an effort to gain insight into their royal ideology. The author compares the Hasmonean palaces to other Hellenistic palaces - especially the Herodian palaces. Finally, the concluding chapter integrates the previous findings into a new understanding of and appreciation for the Hasmoneans' creation of an innovative Jewish corporal identity, one whose echoes we can still hear today.

Eyal Revev ist Professor am Fachbereich für Israelstudien und Archäologie an der Bar-Ilan Universität in Ramat Gan, Israel.

	Cover	341
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	Title Page	341
	4	341
	Copyright	341
	5	341
	Preface	341
	6	341
	Table of Contents	341
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	Body	341
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	Introduction	12
	1. Hasmonean Ideology : Previous Scholarship and Methodology	13
	2. The Maccabean Revolution: The Transformation of Jewish Identity	16
	3. The Pursuit of Hellenism	19
	4. The Sources: Panegyric and Hostile Historiographies	26
	1 Maccabees	26
	2 Maccabees	28
	5. Ideology, Legitimization, and Power	32
	6. A Note on Terms and Translations	36
	Chapter One: .anukkah and the Temple of the Maccabees	37
	1. .anukkah as Days of Millu’im	37
	2. .anukkah as the “Festival of Tabernacles” in 2 Maccabees	39
	3. Consecration Ceremonies, Ritual Legends, and Temple Ideology in the Second Letter of 2 Maccabees	48
	4. .anukkah as a Political Festival	55
	Chapter Two: The Centrality of the Temple in Hasmonean Ideology	59
	1. The Ideology of the Temple in 1 Maccabees	60
	2. Eupolemus, Solomon’s Temple, and the Maccabean Ideology	67
	3. The Temple and Hasmonean Political Power according to Josephus	70
	4. Temple Practices: the Half-Shekel Tribute and Pilgrimage	74
	5. Diaspora Acquiescence: 2 Maccabees and Aristeas	83
	6. Moral Opposition to the Hasmonean Temple: Qumran and the Psalms of Solomon	94
	7. Conclusions: When Politics Meets Religion	99
	Chapter Three: Leading the People: Establishing Hasmonean Authority	104
	1. High Priesthood and Authority in the Persian and Hellenistic Periods	105
	2. Mattathias the Zealot	108
	3. Judah the Savior	109
	4. Jonathan the Judge	112
	5. Simon the Elected High Priest	114
	6. John Hyrcanus the Prophet	118
	7. The Hasmoneans as Religious Leaders	119
	8. Priestly Descent and the Zadokite Problem	121
	9. Becoming Monarchs: Hellenistic Honors and the Accumulation of Wealth	125
	10. Conclusions: Hasmonean “National” Monarchy	128
	Chapter Four: Hasmonean Kingship in Hellenistic and Jewish Contexts	130
	1. Introduction: Were the Hasmoneans Legitimate Kings?	130
	2. Hellenistic Royal Ideology	132
	3. The Idea of Kingship in the Hebrew Bible	143
	4. The Quest for Kingship in Ancient Judaism	148
	5. The Pros and Cons of Hasmonean Kingship	155
	6. Conclusions	174
	Chapter Five: Hasmonean Coinage as Political Discourse	176
	1. Introduction: Background and Method	176
	2. Hasmonean Authority: High Priests or Kings?	183
	3. .eber ha-yehudim and the Hasmoneans’ Collective Jewish Identity	187
	4. The Symbols: Political, Religious, or “National”?	200
	5. Reading Political History in the Hasmonean Coins	215
	6. Conclusions	222
	Chapter Six: Royal Ideology in the Hasmonean Palaces in Jericho	225
	1. Introduction: Aims and Methods	225
	2. Plain Courts: The Size and Function of the Hasmonean Palaces	226
	3. The Internal Structure of the Hasmonean Palaces: Access Analysis	233
	4. Royal Water: Swimming Pools and Gardens	247
	5. The Hasmonean Bathhouses	252
	6. Jewish Royal-Priestly Purity : Ritual Baths	254
	7. Excursus: Identifying the Palaces of Aristobulus II and Hyrcanus II	256
	8. Unembellished Pottery	258
	9. Royal Feasts	261
	10. Disposal of Vessels and Priestly Purity	262
	11. Conclusions: Internal Modesty and External Propaganda	264
	Chapter Seven: Hasmonean Construction of the Jewish Collective Identity	267
	1. Popular Support for the Hasmoneans’ Territorial Conquests	268
	2. Wars, Judaization, and Hasmonean Transformations of JewishIdentity	274
	3. Novel Features of Hasmonean Jewish Collective Identity	279
	4. Social Identity and the Symbolic Construction of Jewish Collectivity	285
	5. Insights from Modern Nationalism	289
	Conclusions: Power through Piety	294
	References	298
	List of Plates	325
	General Index	332
	Back Cover	332
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