COLLECTIVE GUILT AND SELF-SACRIFICE IN SOPHOCLES’ ANTIGONE AND IN II & IV MACCABEES – PRELIMINARY CULTURAL-CRITICAL REMARKS
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https://doi.org/10.25159/1013-8471/3444Abstract
Jewish-Hellenistic authors use language and ideas of ancient Greek tragedies in order to express their own religious and theological standpoints and make them accessible to the Greek-speaking world. This article highlights the significance of Sophocles’ Antigone for a cultural-critical understanding of the concepts of collective guilt and self-sacrifice in II Macc 6-7 and IV MaccMetrics
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2017-11-15
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Dafni, Evangelia G. 2015. “COLLECTIVE GUILT AND SELF-SACRIFICE IN SOPHOCLES’ ANTIGONE AND IN II & IV MACCABEES – PRELIMINARY CULTURAL-CRITICAL REMARKS”. Journal for Semitics 24 (1):198-215. https://doi.org/10.25159/1013-8471/3444.
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