What factors caused a reaction against hellenisation to develop into a crisis of public order in Palestine in the 160s B.C.?
Harvard with footnotes
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Ancient source – I will attach this material
J. Goldstein, “Jewish Acceptance and Rejection of Hellenism”, in Jewish and Christian Self-Definition , ed. E.P. Sanders et. al., vol. 2, London , 1981, pp. 64-87.
Anatomy of a Biblical Revolution , Delaware, 1988.
F. Millar, “The Background to the Maccabean Revolution: reflections on Martin Hengel’s Judaism and Hellenism “, Journal of Jewish Studies vol. 29, 1978, pp. 1-2.
E.S. Gruen, “Hellenism and Persecution”, in Hellenistic History and Culture , ed. P. Green, Berkeley, 1993, pp. 238ff.
T. H, Gaster, “The True Glory of the Maccabean Revolt”, Periodicals Archive Online, 1952, pp. 529-536.
D. S, Williams, “Recent Research in 2 Maccabees”, University of Georgia, 2003, pp. 69-83.