Loading…

1 Maccabees is unavailable, but you can change that!

This is a work for anyone interested in the political and cultural results of the entry of the small state of Judah and its capital Jerusalem into the wider Hellenistic world in the second century BCE. In particular it forms a helpful introduction to the biblical writing called 1 Maccabees, which is preserved in the Apocrypha. 1 Maccabees is a history of the rebellion of the Jews against their...

Gutenberg’s invention of movable type, was the ‘Gutenberg’ Bible of 1456. The importance of the invention of printing for the Reformation is well known, and Martin Luther and others made good use of it for their tracts and controversial writings. The reformers were not particularly sympathetic towards libri ecclesiastici, and followed Jerome in distinguishing them from books of the Hebrew canon. In Luther’s Bible (1534) the apocryphal books (apart from 1 and 2 Esdras) were seen as ‘useful and good
Page 14
Buy this book at Logos.com