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Chilton, Bruce D. Resurrection Logic: How Jesus’ First Followers Believed God Raised Him from the Dead Baylor University Press, 2019
Hiebert, Robert J. V. "In Search of the Old Greek Text of 4 Maccabees" in Cook, Johann, and Hermann-Josef Stipp (eds.) Text-Critical and Hermeneutical Studies in the Septuagint Brill, 2012
Weigold, Matthias "The Deluge and the Flood of Emotions: The Use of Flood Imagery in 4 Maccabees in Its Ancient Jewish Context" in Xeravits, Géza G., and József Zsengellér (eds.) The Books of the Maccabees: History, Theology, Ideology: Papers of the Second International Conference on the Deuteronomical Books Brill, 2007
deSilva, David A. Fourth Maccabees and the Promotion of the Jewish Philosophy: Rhetoric, Intertexture, and Reception Cascade Books, 2020
Tabb, Brian J. Suffering in Ancient Worldview: A Comparative Study of Acts, Fourth Maccabees, and Seneca Middlesex University / London School of Theology, 2013
DeSilva, David A. 4 Maccabees: Introduction and Commentary on the Greek Text in Codex Sinaiticus Brill, 2006

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