JUDAS MACCABAEUS & The Jewish War of Independence / C. R. Conder / 1898

Description: Judas Maccabaeus and the Jewish War of Independence, By Claude Reignier Conder, D.C.L., LL.D. M.R.A.S., Lieut-Colonel R.E. "Can these bones live?" Second Edition. Published by the Committee Of The Palestine Exploration Fund, 38, Conduit Street, London. W. 1898. About:Judah Maccabee (or Judas Maccabaeus, also spelled Maccabeus; Hebrew: יהודה המכבי) was a Jewish priest (kohen) and a son of the priest Mattathias. He led the Maccabean Revolt against the Seleucid Empire (167–160 BCE).The Jewish holiday of Hanukkah ("Dedication") commemorates the restoration of Jewish worship at the Second Temple in Jerusalem in 164 BCE, after Judah Maccabee removed all of the statues depicting Greek gods and goddesses and purified it.Author:Claude Reignier Conder (1848-1910) was an English soldier, explorer and antiquarian. He was a great-great-grandson of Louis-François Roubiliac and grandson of editor and author Josiah Conder. Conder was educated at University College London and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.Details: Second Edition with an eight page preface to the second edition and a two page preface to the first edition by the author. Ex-library copy with library form removed from front-free-endpaper. Lincolnshire Library Service ink stamp to recto of title-page. No other library markings. Very good dark ochre cloth-covered boards, with gilt titles to spine, and blind titles and blind decoration to front-board. Black endpapers. Black and white map frontispiece - sketch map of Palestine - showing places connected with the History of Judas Maccabaeus. Contemporaneous owner's name to top of title-page: G.A. Elson, and A.J. Dunhall in black fountain-pen ink to recto of front-free--endpaper. Spine tight. 200mm x 138mm. xvi prelim pages including two-page preface by the author plus 218 pages including index to rear and eight-page Palestine Exploration Fund catalogue to the rear. Contents:Introduction, From Ezra to SimonChronological Table of EventsChapters:1. The National Life2. The National Religion3. The Revolt. 170 B.C. - 165 B.C.4. The Victories of Judas - 164 B.C.5. Defeats and Death of Judas - 163 - 161 B.C. 6. The Surviving Brothers 161 - 114 B.C. 7. The Results of IndependenceAppendix - Geneology of the Hasmonean Family Condition:A good copy. Boards in good condition with light wear to extremities and a few dark spots to boards; binding sound; leaves clean apart from a few paragraphs that have side-lining or underlining (examples in photographs); light age-goldening. Front-end-paper marked where library form was removed. Please consult photographs fully as this is part of the description

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