A Batalha de Emaús sob a perspectiva do livro Apócrifo de I Macabeus; o fracasso da expedição punitiva liderada por Antíoquo IV Epífanes em 165 a.C., na Judeia

Abstract

In this dissertation we aspire to analyze the document Apocryphon of I Maccabeus, where it describes a series of events in history by the religious and political freedom of the Jewish people to the detriment of the Greek impositions, with Judas Macabeu and his family at the center of the main events of the insurgent revolts. Macabean identity is replete with symbolisms marked by the discourses of its past built by the patriarchs, the religious ideal and the myth that remained as a lively and legitimized discourse favored by religiosity. Their legitimation became a diffusing process of a symbolic construction, for they remained even with the Hellenic pressure, intact in their customs and religiosity. In this sense, we will use the concept of memory and identity in the intention of promoting an analysis of these singularities as a result of the archetypical Hellenic culture in Judea in the second century BC The mythological question and the building of heroism Macabeu appropriated the discourses of holiness in various communities Mediterranean in the first centuries of the Christian era, promoting the military, political and religious instability of Judea and in the provinces under the Seleucid aegis. With the intention of enriching the research, it was necessary to search in the sources of Flávio Josefo and the Book of Daniel elements in their speeches that corroborate with the insurgent events of the macabeus in the period proposed for investigation.