1 Maccabees
2 Maccabees
Josephus
333 BCE
175 BCE
164 BCE
70 CE
Afterlife
Alexander the Great
Antiochus Epiphanes
Assimilation
Author, audience, purpose
Canon
Circumcision
Explanation of suffering
Gentiles
Gymnasium
Hasmoneans
Heliodorus
Hellenism, Hellenistic period
High priesthood
Historiography
Judah Maccabee
Maccabean revolt
Martyrdom
Mattathias
Natural vs. supernatural
Parallelism
Particularism
Phinehas
Prophets, prophecy
Reasons to fight
Resurrection of the body
Role of God
Sabbath
Secular
Seleucids
Separation
Temple
Universalism
Vicarious suffering
Zeal, violence, limits, justification