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- Title
Reading the Roman-Jewish treaty in 1 Maccabees 8: narrative, documents, and Hellenistic historical culture.
- Authors
MacRae, Duncan E.
- Abstract
This article examines the historiographical poetics of the Roman-Jewish treaty that is quoted in 1 Maccabees 8. On a narrative level, the unusual verbatim quotation of the treaty acts as a guarantee for the narratorial voice, while the evocation of an epigraphic bronze copy of the text allows the text to fulfill an archival function. The inclusion of a bilateral treaty document in a piece of Hebrew (or Hebraising) historiography also indicates a moment of cultural transfusion, when a habit of Greek history writing - the verbatim quotation of treaty documents - was incorporated into a distinct historiographical tradition. This analysis offers a new perspective on the question of the Hellenism of 1 Maccabees. This article is offered to Brian McGing in gratitude for his teaching.
- Subjects
BILATERAL treaties; GRATITUDE; GREEK history; COPYING; TREATIES; ROMAN Republic, 510-30 B.C.; HELLENISM; HISTORIOGRAPHY
- Publication
Hermathena, 2016, Issue 200/201, p73
- ISSN
0018-0750
- Publication type
Article