The Festival of Dionysus in 2 Macc 6:7b

Recent scholarship has maintained that the Dionysian rites of 2 Macc 6:7b are not historical because evidence of this cult in Seleukid official policy is seen as meager at best. A review of Antiochus IV’s coinage, his procession at Daphne, his designation of Geron the Athenian as enforcer of the imp...

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1. VerfasserIn: Scolnic, Benjamin Edidin (Verfasst von)
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Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: 2018
In: Journal for the study of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic, and Roman period
Jahr: 2018, Band: 49, Heft: 2, Seiten: 153-164
normierte Schlagwort(-folgen):B Griechenland (Altertum) / Kultur
weitere Schlagwörter:B Bibel. Makkabäer 2. 6,7
B Fest
B Hellenismus
B Dionysos
B Maccabees Dionysus Seleukid Antiochus IV
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Zusammenfassung:Recent scholarship has maintained that the Dionysian rites of 2 Macc 6:7b are not historical because evidence of this cult in Seleukid official policy is seen as meager at best. A review of Antiochus IV’s coinage, his procession at Daphne, his designation of Geron the Athenian as enforcer of the imposed cult, and other allusions to promiscuity in the Temple may indicate that this reference to Dionysian practices is at least plausible.
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ISSN:1570-0631
Enthält:Enthalten in: Journal for the study of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic, and Roman period
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/15700631-12491200