3 Maccabees and Esther: Parallels, Intertextuality, and Diaspora Identity

Journal of Biblical Literature | January 1, 2007| | Copyright

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This article reconsiders the as-yet-unresolved issue of literary dependence between 3 Maccabees and Esther-both the Hebrew and the Greek versions. An early-twentieth-century treatment appeared in the context of Hugo Willrich's attempt to identify the historical kernel of 3 Maccabees; a century later, this question is still under exploration, for example, in Philip Alexander's article titled "3 Maccabees, Hanukkah and Purim."1 Scholarly opinions range from the contention that 3 Maccabees was written after Greek ...

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