Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Yitzhak Sapir" <yitzhaksapir AT gmail.com>]

On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 9:39 PM, Rolf Furuli wrote:
> Dear Jason,
>
> Three sources that you may want to study are: [...]

Dear Rolf,

Are these really sources fit to be considered "a reputed
non-religious position on the section, perhaps providing
argumentation supporting the view that the events
mentioned in the verses were accomplished in the time
of Antiochus IV" that can be referenced in a research
paper on the subject?  If not, and since you are writing
a book on the subject, what recent scholarship would
you recommend that appropriately addresses and
explains the consensus point of view?

Yitzhak Sapir