Apocalypse Against Empire

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  • Apocalypse Against Empire Book Detail

  • Author : Anathea Portier-Young
  • Release Date : 2014-01-09
  • Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
  • Genre : History
  • Pages : 487
  • ISBN 13 : 080287083X
  • File Size : 73,73 MB

Apocalypse Against Empire by Anathea Portier-Young PDF Summary

Book Description: The year 167 B.C.E. marked the beginning of a period of intense persecution for the people of Judea, as Seleucid emperor Antiochus IV Epiphanes attempted -- forcibly and brutally -- to eradicate traditional Jewish religious practices. In Apocalypse against Empire Anathea Portier-Young reconstructs the historical events and key players in this traumatic episode in Jewish history and provides a sophisticated treatment of resistance in early Judaism. Building on a solid contextual foundation, Portier-Young argues that the first Jewish apocalypses emerged as a literature of resistance to Hellenistic imperial rule. In particular, Portier-Young contends, the book of Daniel, the Apocalypse of Weeks, and the Book of Dreams were written to supply an oppressed people with a potent antidote to the destructive propaganda of the empire -- renewing their faith in the God of the covenant and answering state terror with radical visions of hope.

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