| Part I | 15 |
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| I Introduction: The Torah in 1 Maccabees- | 17 |
| 1.1 Aim- | 17 |
| 1.2 Previous Studies- | 19 |
| 1.2.1 The Law in Scholarship of 1 Maccabees- | 20 |
| 1.2.2 The (dis)Unity of IMaccabees in Scholarship- | 45 |
| 1.3 A Restatement of Aims- | 55 |
| 1.4 Methods and Premises- | 56 |
| Partitio- | 59 |
| II Literary Criticism of 1 Maccabees- | 61 |
| II.1 lMaccl- | 61 |
| 1:11-15- | 62 |
| 1:43 | 63 |
| 1:52 | 65 |
| 1:62-63- | 66 |
| Implications- | 67 |
| II.2 IMacc 2- | 69 |
| 2:23-26- | 70 |
| 2:42-44- | 72 |
| Implications- | 74 |
| II.3 IMacc 3- | 76 |
| 3:3-9- | 77 |
| Implications- | 79 |
| II.4 IMacc 5- | 81 |
| 5:55-62- | 81 |
| 5:18-19- | 86 |
| Implications- | 87 |
| II.5 IMacc 6- | 88 |
| 6:21-27- | 88 |
| 6:42-46- | 92 |
| Implications- | 95 |
| II.6 IMacc 7- | 96 |
| 7:5-7- | 100 |
| 7:9*- | 101 |
| 7:12*- | 102 |
| 7:13-14- | 102 |
| 7:16d-17- | 103 |
| 7:19 | 104 |
| 7:20a-b- | 105 |
| 7:21-25- | 105 |
| Implications- | 105 |
| II.7 IMacc 8- | 109 |
| Implications- | 116 |
| II.8 IMacc 9- | 118 |
| 9:01 | 119 |
| 9:23-24- | 121 |
| 9:34-42- | 122 |
| 9:54-61- | 124 |
| 0.422916667 | 125 |
| 9:73d- | 126 |
| Implications- | 127 |
| II.9 IMacc 10- | 130 |
| 10:3-9, 15*. 25b-45- | 131 |
| 10:12-14- | 137 |
| 10:14 | 138 |
| 10:61, 64- | 139 |
| Implications- | 140 |
| II.10 1 Maccabees 11- | 143 |
| 11:21, 25- | 144 |
| II.11 IMacc 12- | 145 |
| 12:1-23- | 146 |
| Implications- | 151 |
| II.12 IMacc 13- | 152 |
| 13:25-30- | 153 |
| 13:41-42- | 157 |
| Implications- | 163 |
| II.13 IMacc 14- | 164 |
| 14:1-3- | 165 |
| 14:4-15- | 168 |
| II.14 Organizing the Additions: The Literary Layers of 1 Maccabees- | 173 |
| Classification of the Secondary Material- | 174 |
| Group 1- | 174 |
| Group 2- | 178 |
| Group 3- | 182 |
| Historical Arguments- | 187 |
| IMaccO-The Internal Opposition Redaction- | 188 |
| IMaccD - The Documentarian Redaction- | 195 |
| IMaccH - The Hasmonean Legend Redaction- | 198 |
| Conclusions- | 199 |
| Part II- | 201 |
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| III The Nomos and its Place in 1 Maccabees- | 203 |
| III.1Meaningful Vocabulary:- | 204 |
| III.2 Religious Value and Significance of the Concept of the Law- | 205 |
| Is the Nomos supreme in the hierarchy of religious values?- | 205 |
| IMaccG- | 205 |
| IMaccD- | 207 |
| IMaccO- | 209 |
| IMaccH- | 210 |
| Does the nomos decide whether characters are good or evil?- | 211 |
| IMaccG- | 211 |
| IMaccD- | 214 |
| IMaccO- | 215 |
| IMaccH- | 216 |
| Does the law assume the other traditional religious categories?- | 216 |
| IMaccG- | 217 |
| IMaccD- | 221 |
| IMaccO- | 222 |
| IMaccH- | 224 |
| Is the Torah Israel’s Way of Life?- | 225 |
| IMaccG- | 225 |
| IMaccD- | 227 |
| IMaccO- | 227 |
| IMaccH- | 229 |
| Is the Torah a Fence?- | 229 |
| IMaccG- | 229 |
| IMaccD- | 231 |
| IMaccO- | 231 |
| IMaccH- | 232 |
| Is the Torah the State Law of judea?- | 232 |
| IMaccG- | 233 |
| IMaccD- | 234 |
| IMaccO- | 236 |
| IMaccH- | 237 |
| III.3 Summary: The Law and Laws in IMaccabees- | 237 |
| IMaccG- | 237 |
| IMaccD- | 239 |
| IMaccO- | 241 |
| IMaccH- | 242 |
| IV Concluding Remarks- | 245 |
| Appendix: Text and Translation of the Strata- | 249 |
| Chapter 1- | 249 |
| IMaccG- | 249 |
| IMaccO- | 250 |
| IMaccG- | 250 |
| IMaccO- | 253<
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