{"id":913,"date":"2017-05-22T09:40:38","date_gmt":"2017-05-22T13:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/maccabees\/?page_id=913"},"modified":"2017-05-23T22:51:30","modified_gmt":"2017-05-24T02:51:30","slug":"imagining-the-maccabees","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/maccabees\/dialogues-and-discussions\/imagining-the-maccabees\/","title":{"rendered":"Imagining the Maccabees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>April 6, 2017, <\/strong><strong>Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies, Boston University<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Speakers: Steven Weitzman (University of Pennsylvania) and Benedikt Eckhardt (University of Bremen)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Professors Weitzman and Eckhardt discuss the methods and consequences of bringing a modern literary approach to the text of 1 Maccabees, and consider how such an approach invites reflection on the fictive dimensions of our modern scholarly reconstructions.<\/p>\n<div class=\"responsive-video responsive-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jEzoyye8JNg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 6, 2017, Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies, Boston University Speakers: Steven Weitzman (University of Pennsylvania) and Benedikt Eckhardt (University of Bremen) Professors Weitzman and Eckhardt discuss the methods and consequences of bringing a modern literary approach to the text of 1 Maccabees, and consider how such an approach invites reflection on the fictive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12357,"featured_media":0,"parent":854,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/maccabees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/913"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/maccabees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/maccabees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/maccabees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12357"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/maccabees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=913"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/maccabees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":915,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/maccabees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/913\/revisions\/915"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/maccabees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/maccabees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}