4 Maccabees: Introduction And Commentary on the Greek Text in Codex Sinaiticus (Septuagint Commentary Series) - Hardcover

Desilva, David Arthur

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004147764 ISBN 13: 9789004147768

Publisher: Brill Academic Pub, 2006

Synopsis

This commentary examines 4 Maccabees as a contribution to the ongoing reformulation of Jewish identity and practice in the Greek-speaking Diaspora. It analyzes the Jewish author’s interaction with, and facility in, Greek rhetorical conventions, ethical philosophy, and literary culture, giving attention also to his use and interpretation of texts and traditions from the Jewish Scriptures and other Hellenistic Jewish writings. The commentary exhibits the author’s skillful weaving together of all these resources to create a text that interprets the Torah-observant life as the fullest embodiment of the best Greek ethical ideals. A distinctive feature is the examination of how the experience of reading 4 Maccabees in Codex Sinaiticus differs from the experience of reading the eclectic text.

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About the Author

David A. deSilva (Ph.D. in Religion, Emory University, 1995) is Trustees' Distinguished Professor of New Testament and Greek at Ashland Theological Seminary in Ohio and an ordained elder in the Florida Conference of the United Methodist Church.  He is the author of over twenty books, including An Introduction to the New Testament: Contexts, Methods & Ministry Formation (2004), Seeing Things John's Way: The Rhetoric of the Book of Revelation (2009), and Introducing the Apocrypha (2002) and a hundred journal articles and contributions to reference works and collections of essays.

Edition details

• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 9004147764
• ISBN 13: 9789004147768
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 303