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Title: Megillat Taanit as a source for Jewish chronology and history in the Hellenistic and Roman periods
Author: Solomon Zeitlin
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Megillat Taanit as a source for Jewish chronology and history in the Hellenistic and Roman periods
Author: Zeitlin, Solomon, 1886-1976
Subject: Megillat Ta'anit; Jews -- History
Publisher: Philadelphia [Printed in England at the Oxford University Press]
Possible copyright status: NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT
Call number: ABI-3180
Digitizing sponsor: MSN
Book contributor: Robarts - University of Toronto
This book has an editable web page on Open Library.
The main sources of the history of the Second Commonwealth are: the first and
second books of Maccabees, Josephus' Works, and the Tannaitic Literature.
In dealing with the Tannaitic Literature one ought not to lose sight of the
fact that it has reached us through the medium of the Amoraim, who at times
incorporated in the Tannaitic texts their own interpretations. The relative
historical values of first and second Maccabees is a much disputed question.
The crucial point in this controversy is, Which of these two books is more
exact in its chronological dates ? Some scholars believe that they have found
the chronology of first Maccabees in agreement with what is known to us from
reliable Greek historians, and hence decide in its favour against second
Maccabees; while others take the opposite view. Similarly scholars have
questioned many a statement by Josephus on account of the discrepancy between
him and the Greco-Roman historians with regard to the chronology.
With the help of the Megillat Taanit I trust that I have shown the identity
of the dates given in first and second Maccabees and in Josephus, and thereby
have removed all discrepancy, thus reinvesting their statements with historical
significance and authority.
(from the preface)
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