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Croy, N. Clayton,

3 Maccabees / N. Clayton Croy. - 1 online resource. - Septuagint Commentary Series Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495 . - Septuagint Commentary Series. Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- 3 Maccabees -- Text and translation -- Commentary.

3 Maccabees is among the most neglected books of the Old Testament Apocrypha. This new commentary is one of very few written in the last century, and it is the only full-scale commentary in English. The volume includes a fresh translation of the Greek text of Alexandrinus, an introduction, a section by section commentary replete with cross-references to ancient literature and citations of modern scholarship, a bibliography, and indices. A novel contribution of the commentary is an interpretation of 3 Maccabees as, in part, a narrative satire on the cult of Dionysus.


English and Greek.

ISBN: 9789047417194 9789004147751

Standard No.: 10.1163/9789047417194 DOI

Subjects--Uniform Titles:
11.41 study and interpretation of the Old Testament.
Third Book of Maccabees--Commentaries.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Apocrypha and pseudepigraphs.

LC Class. No.: BS1825.53 / .C76 2006

Dewey Class. No.: 229/.75077