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3 Maccabees

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Edition 1.0

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1.0

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David M. Miller

Ken M. Penner

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Miller, David M., and Ken M. Penner, eds. "3 Maccabees." Edition 1.0. No pages. In The Online Critical Pseudepigrapha. Edited by Ian W. Scott, Ken M. Penner, and David M. Miller. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2006. Online: http://www.purl.org/net/ocp/3-maccabees.

January 31, 2011 - 9:06pm | by Ian W. Scott

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The Greek text of 3 Maccabees is presented here without critical apparatus as it appears in Alfred Rahlfs, ed., Septuaginta: Id est Vetus Testamentum graece iuxta LXX interpretes (2 vols.; Stuttgart: Privilegierte württembergische Biblelanstalt, 1935).

The Syriac, Armenian, and Old Slavonic versions of 3 Maccabees have not yet been encoded. Work on a full critical apparatus has not yet begun.

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Print Editions:

Alfred Rahlfs, ed., Septuaginta: Id est Vetus Testamentum graece iuxta LXX interpretes (2 vols.; Stuttgart: Privilegierte württembergische Biblelanstalt, 1935).
H. B. Swete, The Old Testament in Greek According to the Septuagint (Cambridge, 1930), 3.709-728.
H. E. Apel, "Maccabaeorum liber III," Libri Veteris Testamenti apocryphi graece (Leipzig, 1830), 251-266.

For further bibliography see DiTommaso, Bibliography, 672-674.

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