Fourth Maccabees and the Promotion of the Jewish Philosophy Rhetoric, Intertexture, and Reception

Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction Part 1: Rhetorical Situation and Strategic Response 1. The Author of 4 Maccabees and Greek Paideia: Facets of the Formation of a Hellenistic Jewish Rhetor 2. Honor and Shame as Argumentative Topoi in 4 Maccabees 3. Fourth Maccabees as Acculturated Resistance Literature Part 2: The Rhetorical Contributions of Intertexture 4. The Strategic Retelling of Scripture in 4 Maccabees: David's Thirst (4 Macc 3:6-18) 5. Engagement with Greco-Roman Intertexture: Conversations about Maternal Affections 6. "Father Knew Best": Intertextuality and Argumentation in 4 Macc 18:6-19 Part 3: The Legacy of 4 Maccabees 7. The Human Ideal, the Problem of Evil, and Moral Responsibility in 4 Maccabees 8. Fourth Maccabees and Early Christian Martyrdom: The Influence of 4 Maccabees on Origen's Exhortatio ad Martyrium 9. Ambrose's Use of 4 Maccabees in De Jacob et Vita Beata 10. Beyond the Eclectic Text of 4 Maccabees: Reading 4 Maccabees in Codex Sinaiticus Conclusion Bibliography Author Index Scripture Index