Old Testament Pseudepigrapha and the Scriptures
by E. Tigchelaar
Old Testament Pseudepigrapha and the Scriptures contains thepapers of the Colloquium Biblicum Lovaniense 2012, which focused on aseries of contemporary questions in Pseudepigrapha research. The papersdiscuss the relationship of Old Testament Pseudepigrapha to scriptures,both in a technical sense (how did authors rewrite or interpretScripture) and in a literary sense (how and why did authors expand orextend earlier scriptures). Many papers cover the phenomenon ofpseudepigraphy, giving explanations ranging from pious forgery throughvarious kinds of literary devices to authorial self-effacement. Somecontributions discuss the historically fluid boundaries betweencanonical and pseudepigraphic texts, and the production and use of OldTestament pseudepigrapha in early Christianity.The volume contains papers on texts like Jubilees, the GenesisApocryphon, other Dead Sea Scrolls texts, the Sibylline Oracles,Baruch, the Testament of Abraham, 4 Ezra, Jannesand Jambres, the Latin Vision of Ezra, the Life of Adamand Eve, the Story of Melchizedek, and the Story of Zosimus,as well as detailed studies on aspects of other texts like, e.g., 2Baruch and the Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum.
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Old Testament Pseudepigrapha and the Scriptures contains the papers of the Colloquium Biblicum Lovaniense 2012, which focused on a series of contemporary questions in Pseudepigrapha research. The papers discuss the relationship of Old Testament Pseudepigrapha to scriptures, both in a technical sense (how did authors rewrite or interpret Scripture) and in a literary sense (how and why did authors expand or extend earlier scriptures). Many papers cover the phenomenon of pseudepigraphy, giving explanations ranging from pious forgery through various kinds of literary devices to authorial self-effacement. Some contributions discuss the historically fluid boundaries between canonical and pseudepigraphic texts, and the production and use of Old Testament pseudepigrapha in early Christianity. The volume contains papers on texts like Jubilees, the Genesis Apocryphon, other Dead Sea Scrolls texts, the Sibylline Oracles, Baruch, the Testament of Abraham, 4 Ezra, Jannes and Jambres, the Latin Vision of Ezra, the Life of Adam and Eve, the Story of Melchizedek, and the Story of Zosimus, as well as detailed studies on aspects of other texts like, e.g., 2 Baruch and the Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum.
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