Roger Pearse

Can anyone access Bensly's "Fourth Book of Maccabees" on Google Books here? If so, could someone help me get hold of a copy? I'm interested in the sermon by Severus of Antioch on pp.xxvii-xxxiv.

Thanks!

Toto

Were you not able to access to pdf download? I was able to download it with Adobe 7

Ben C Smith

UK users may not have the same permissions as US users do.

Roger, I have just uploaded the PDF (but in smaller files) to my site for you. Here are the addresses:

http://www.textexcavation.com/docume...accsyriac1.pdf (618 KB).
http://www.textexcavation.com/docume...accsyriac2.pdf (979 KB).
http://www.textexcavation.com/docume...accsyriac3.pdf (636 KB).
http://www.textexcavation.com/docume...accsyriac4.pdf (640 KB).
http://www.textexcavation.com/docume...accsyriac5.pdf (620 KB).
http://www.textexcavation.com/docume...accsyriac6.pdf (1002 KB).

Ben.

Roger Pearse

Thanks Ben, I'll grab that this evening.

Toto: much of Google books is invisible from outside the US.

Roger Pearse

Ben, I have them. Many thanks indeed.

Interestingly from the introduction I learn that 4 Maccabees is present in the great biblical codices Sinaiticus and Alexandrinus, which I had not known.

DCHindley

There was some sort of fascination with martyrdom in the period when those codices were produced, and these books fit the bill.

DCH

David B

If this post doesn't fall into oblivion, then it will probably need a split.

Are there any biblical (and later early Christian) scholars here, who are also familiar with the sort of martyrdom rhetoric emerging from modern Islam, and, if so, are things in common, things different, about them?

David B (is curious)