Early Judaism- A Comprehensive Overview

The reason for the use of “apocrypha” to designate noncanonical works during the fourth century may be found in the widespread n ...

wisdom,” and “the river of knowledge.” The association of esoteric revela- tion with more discerning readers is reminiscent of D ...

phon” has more recently been applied more loosely to those writings that represent or contain traditions whose existence was unk ...

Second, these writings were originally composed in different lan- guages. For several of the documents an original composition i ...

(which made larger collections of books possible) and only when decisions came to be made about canonicity were they formally br ...

Apocryphal Collections in Medieval Jewish Manuscripts The comparative devaluation of “outside books” in Jewish tradition did not ...

served from antiquity. In this latter sense, the narrow definition of “pseud- epigrapha” does not describe all documents which h ...

Why “Pseudepigraphal” Writings? To today’s readers the notion of a falsely ascribed literary work can carry with it the connotat ...

Not only was the Greek translation of the Jewish Torah reportedly pro- duced for such a reason during the third centuryb.c.e.(se ...

b.c.e.Epistle of Enochat1 Enoch104:10-11, a passage preserved in Ethiopic and Greek texts: Ethiopic Greek (10) And now I know th ...

they were doing. In almost all the extant literature, the writers offer little or no direct hints about theirownpersona, and it ...

Pseudepigrapha since the Enlightenment and the Dead Sea Scrolls Since the beginning of the nineteenth century there has been a s ...

Psalms 151, 154, 155: 11Q5 Related, though not formally a pseudepigraphon, is the AramaicBook of Giants(1Q23, 1Q24, 2Q26, 4Q203 ...

ment, Prayer of Nabonidus, Visions of Amram, Testament of Qahat), demonstrate that the practice of attributing wisdom and speech ...

fore stems from a non-Christian Jewish tradition (e.g., many parts ofTe s- taments of the Twelve Patriarchs). Nevertheless, when ...

ments discovered among the Dead Sea Scrolls reflects the ancient meaning of “hidden” traditions without, however, being “hidden” ...

fragments or in quotations. The MOTP collection is casting its net more widely to include pseudepigrapha composed by Jews and Ch ...

de Jonge, Marinus. 2003.Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament as Part of Christian Literature: The Case of the Testaments of the T ...

The Dead Sea Scrolls Eibert Tigchelaar In a comprehensive sense, the Dead Sea Scrolls include all texts from Wadi Daliyeh, Ketef ...

texts that discuss the membership of the movement of the “renewed cov- enant,” exegetical works that apply scriptural prophecies ...