RT Article
T1 The Linguistic Register of 3 Maccabees and its Sociocultural Implications
JF Journal of septuagint and cognate studies
VO 57
SP 231
OP 253
A1 Comins, Ryan
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1935366270
AB The Greek of 3 Maccabees contains numerous rare lexical items and notable syntactic constructions which have scarcely been analysed or contextualised within the extant corpus of Postclassical Greek. In this article, several of these lexical and syntactic features are situated within their contemporary sociolinguistic context and analysed from the perspective of register. The implications of this linguistic evidence for our understanding of the social background of 3 Maccabees and its Jewish Greek cultural identity are then examined.
K1 Bibel, Makkabäer, 3
DO 10.2143/JSCS.57.0.3294343