Thy Brother's Blood: The Maccabees and Dynastic Morality in the Hellenistic World (Studies in Judaism)
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Thy Brother's Blood: The Maccabees and Dynastic Morality in the Hellenistic World (Studies in Judaism)

Thy Brother's Blood: The Maccabees and Dynastic Morality in the Hellenistic World (Studies in Judaism)

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Benjamin Edidin Scolnic (Author)  

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Through exploring the particular importance of the fraternal relationship among the dynasties of the Hellenistic world in Thy Brother's Blood, Dr. Benjamin Scolnic demonstrates how adherence to or rejection of the "morality of kinship" literally changed the world. This in-depth book reviews fraternal relationships in the Bible and Greek and Roman mythology to create models for the falls of the Attalids of Pergamon and the Antigonids of Macedonia. The ancient writers from Rome to Jerusalem valued fraternal bonds and used fratricide as the symbol for internal dissension within nations. Using a focalized approach, Dr. Scolnic cautions that historians sometimes were so consumed with the metaphor of fraternity that they ignored the historical realities. He demonstrates this by providing a historical and moral context for the fall of one Judean dynasty, the Zadokite high priests, and for the rise and fall of the Hasmonaean dynasty, known to the world as the Maccabees.
Benjamin Edidin Scolnic, a scholar, archaeologist and pulpit rabbi, is the author of eight other books including If the Egyptians Died in the Red Sea, Where are Pharaoh's Chariots? He has taught at four universities including Yale and the Jewish Theological Seminary. He has served as Biblical Consultant for the North Sinai Archaeological Expedition since 2000. He has been the rabbi of Temple Beth Sholom, Hamden, Connecticut since 1983.
  • Contributor: Benjamin Edidin Scolnic
  • Imprint: University Press of America
  • ISBN13: 9780761839125
  • Number of Pages: 220
  • Packaged Dimensions: 153x231x18mm
  • Packaged Weight: 336
  • Format: Paperback
  • Publisher: University Press of America
  • Release Date: 2007-10-22
  • Series: Studies in Judaism
  • Binding: Paperback / softback
  • Biography: Benjamin Edidin Scolnic, a scholar, archaeologist and pulpit rabbi, is the author of eight other books including If the Egyptians Died in the Red Sea, Where are Pharaoh's Chariots? He has taught at four universities including Yale and the Jewish Theological Seminary. He has served as Biblical Consultant for the North Sinai Archaeological Expedition since 2000. He has been the rabbi of Temple Beth Sholom, Hamden, Connecticut since 1983.

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