Collective guilt and self-sacrifice in Sophocles' Antigone and in II & IV Maccabees - preliminary cultural-critical remarks

Dafni, Evangelia G.

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dc.contributor.author	Dafni, Evangelia G.
dc.date.accessioned	2015-09-23T05:42:34Z
dc.date.issued	2015
dc.description.abstract	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 Macc.	en_ZA
dc.description.embargo	2016-06-01
dc.description.librarian	am2015	en_ZA
dc.description.uri	http://www.sasnes.org.za/SASNES_Journal_for_Semitics.htm	en_ZA
dc.identifier.citation	Dafni, E.G. 2015, 'Collective guilt and self-sacrifice in Sophocles' Antigone and in II & IV Maccabees - preliminary cultural-critical remarks', Journal for Semitics, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 198-215.	en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn	1013-8471
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2263/50023
dc.language.iso	en	en_ZA
dc.publisher	Unisa Press	en_ZA
dc.rights	Unisa Press	en_ZA
dc.subject	Greek tragedies	en_ZA
dc.subject	Collective guilt	en_ZA
dc.subject	Self-sacrifice	en_ZA
dc.subject	Sophocles' Antigone
dc.subject	II & IV Maccabees
dc.subject	Jewish-Hellenistic
dc.subject.other	Theology articles SDG-04
dc.subject.other	SDG-04: Quality education
dc.subject.other	Theology articles SDG-16
dc.subject.other	SDG-16: Peace, justice and strong institutions
dc.title	Collective guilt and self-sacrifice in Sophocles' Antigone and in II & IV Maccabees - preliminary cultural-critical remarks	en_ZA
dc.type	Article	en_ZA