TY  - BOOK
AU  - Croy,N.Clayton
TI  - 3 Maccabees
T2  - Septuagint Commentary Series
SN  - 9789047417194
AV  - BS1825.53 .C76 2006
U1  - 229/.75077 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Leiden; , Boston
PB  - BRILL
KW  - 11.41 study and interpretation of the Old Testament
KW  - Third Book of Maccabees
KW  - Commentaries
KW  - Apocrypha and pseudepigraphs
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction -- 3 Maccabees -- Text and translation -- Commentary
N2  - 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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789047417194
ER  -