This volume, the only full-scale commentary on 3 Maccabees in English, includes a fresh translation, an introduction, a section by section commentary, and bibliography. The author views 3 Maccabees as, in part, a narrative satire on the cult of Dionysus.

N. Clayton Croy, Ph.D. (1995) in Religion, Emory University, is Associate Professor of New Testament at Trinity Lutheran Seminary. He is the author of A Primer of Biblical Greek (Eerdmans, 1999) and The Mutilation of Mark's Gospel (Abingdon, 2003).