Die Afrikaanse Protestantse Akademie Biblioteek

Met lit. opg. en indices.

I Maccabees: Introduction: The content and character of the book -- The extant sources of first and Second Maccabees -- Josephus and the work of Onias IV -- The Date and setting of First and Second Maccabees in the Polemics of the Hasmonaean Period -- Sources of the first and Second Maccabees no longer Extant -- What really happened: The Civic and Religious policies of Antiochus IV -- What really happened: Chronicle Table -- The witness to the text -- Translation and notes: The Hellenistic Empire from Alexander to Antiochus IV -- The Jewish Hellenizers -- The victories of Antiochus IV in Egypt -- Antiochus IV punishes the Jews -- Mattathias' Act of zeal -- Mattathias' Guerrilla campain -- Mattathias' Last Words -- Judas' Early Victories -- The king marches eastward -- Judas Defeats Nicanor and Gorgias -- Lysias fails to crush Judas' band -- The restoration of the Temple -- Wars with hostile neighbours -- The death of Antiochus IV -- The expidition of Antidochus V and Lysias -- The High Priest Alcimus and the Campaign of Nicanor -- The alliance with Rome -- The death of Judas -- Jonathan Succeeds Judas -- Jonathan as Guerrilla Chieftain -- Alexander Balas makes Jonathan High Priest -- Johnathan grows in Power -- Jonathan defeats Apollonius -- The fall of Alexander Balas -- Demetrius II honors Jonathan and the Jews -- Jonathan breaks wit Demetrius II -- Victories under Antiochus VI -- Diplomacy with Rome and Sparta -- Further gains under Antiocus VI -- Tryphon treacherously captures Jonathan -- Simon leads the Jews to liberty -- Further victories under Simon -- Simon's glory -- Simon is bold to Antiochus VII -- Simon and sons rout Kendebaios -- Simon's death