Fourth Book of Maccabees

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The Fourth Book of Maccabees is a Second Temple Jewish document. It belongs to the collectioons of Old Testament Apocrypha.

Bibliography

Books

  • C.W. Emmet, The Fourth Book of Maccabees (London, 1918) [English trans. and commentary]
  • H. D”rrie, Passio SS. Machabaeorum: die Antike lateinische šbersetzung des IV Makka„erbuches (AGWG 22; G”ttingen, 1938)
  • A. Dupont-Sommer, Le quatriŠme livre des Machab‚es (Paris, 1939) [French trans. and commentary]
  • M. Hadas, The Third and Fourth Books of Maccabees (JAL; New York, 1953) 91-243 [Greek text (ed. Rahlfs), and English trans.]
  • Jan Willem van Henten, The Maccabean Martyrs as Saviours of the Jewish People: A Study of 2 and 4 Maccabees (Leiden: Brill, 1997).