Guide for Test on Historiography

Sources

1 Maccabees

2 Maccabees

Josephus

Terms and Concepts

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