synagogue practice have no parallel to 4 Mc (save in a sense Heb 11 and Wis 10)

beginning with a scripture text. It is true that for the non-biblical point of departure we but it is doubtful if we know enough about Judeo-Hellenistic practice to judge the question of the synagogal origins of 4 Mc on that basis. It is even possible, as Thyen suggests, that the Scripture text was not part of the homily but was simply the synagogue reading (from 2 Mc ?) that preceded. However, regardless its original Sitz im Leben, as 4 Mc stands now (i.e., without that Scripture