Old Testament Pseudepigrapha: More Noncanonical Scriptures, vol. 1

by Richard Bauckham; James R. Davila; Alexander Panayotov

Publisher:

Eerdmans

, 2013

Overview

This work stands among the most important publications in biblical studies over the past 25 years. Richard Bauckham, James Davila, and Alexander Panayotov’s new two-volume collection of Old Testament pseudepigrapha contains many previously unpublished and newly translated texts, complementing James Charlesworth’s Old Testament Pseudepigrapha and other earlier collections.

Including virtually all known surviving pseudepigrapha written before the rise of Islam, this volume, among other things, presents the sacred legends and spiritual reflections of numerous long-dead authors whose works were lost, neglected, or suppressed for many centuries. Excellent English translations along with authoritative yet accessible introductions bring those ancient documents to life for readers today.

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Key Features

• Contains previously unpublished and newly translated texts
• Presents the sacred legends and spiritual reflections of authors whose works were lost, neglected, or suppressed for many centuries
• Provides english translations as well as authoritative and accessible introductions

Contents

• “Adam Octipartite/Septipartite” by Grant Macaskill with Eamon Greenwood
• “The Life of Adam and Eve (Coptic Fragments)” by Simon J. Gathercole
• “The Book of the Covenant” by James VanderKam
• “The Apocryphon of Seth” by Alexander Toepel
• “The Book of Noah” by Martha Himmelfarb
• “The Apocryphon of Eber” by James VanderKam
• “The Dispute over Abraham” by Richard Bauckham
• “The Inquiry of Abraham (A Possible Allusion to the Apocalypse of Abraham)” by Richard Bauckham
• “The Story of Melchizedek with the Melchizedek Legend from the Chronicon Paschale” by Pierluigi Piovanelli
• “The Syriac History of Joseph” by Kristian S. Heal
• “Aramaic Levi” by James R. Davila
• “Midrash Vayissa‘u” by Martha Himmelfarb
• “The Testament of Job (Coptic Fragments)” by Gesa Schenke
• “The Tiburtine Sibyl (Greek)” by Rieuwerd Buitenwerf
• “The Eighth Book of Moses” by Todd E. Klutz
• “The Balaam Text from Tell Deir ‘Allā” by Edward M. Cook
• “Eldad and Modad” by Richard Bauckham
• “Songs of David” by G. W. Lorein and E. Van Staalduine-Sulman
• “The Aramaic Song of the Lamb (The Dialogue between David and Goliath)” by C. T. R. Hayward
• “Exorcistic Psalms of David and Solomon” by Gideon Bohak
• “The Selenodromion of David and Solomon” by Pablo A. Torijano
• “The Hygromancy of Solomon” by Pablo A. Torijano
• “Questions of the Queen of Sheba and Answers by King Solomon” by Vahan S. Hovhanessian with Sebastian P. Brock
• “The Nine and a Half Tribes” by Richard Bauckham
• “The Heartless Rich Man and the Precious Stone” by William Adler
• “Jeremiah’s Prophecy to Pashhur” by Darrell D. Hannah
• “The Apocryphon of Ezekiel” by Benjamin G. Wright III
• “The Treatise of the Vessels (Massekhet Kelim)” by James R. Davila
• “The Seventh Vision of Daniel” by Sergio La Porta
• “A Danielic Pseudepigraphon Paraphrased by Papias” by Basil Lourié
• “The Relics of Zechariah and the Boy Buried at His Feet” by William Adler
• “Sefer Zerubbabel: The Prophetic Vision of Zerubbabel ben Shealtiel” by John C. Reeves
• “Fifth Ezra” by Theodore A. Bergren
• “Sixth Ezra” by Theodore A. Bergren
• “The Latin Vision of Ezra” by Richard Bauckham
• “The Cave of Treasures” by Alexander Toepel
• “Palaea Historica (‘The Old Testament History’)” by William Adler
• “Quotations from Lost Books in the Hebrew Bible” by James R. Davila
• “Hebrew Visions of Hell and Paradise” by Helen Spurling

Product Details

• Title: Old Testament Pseudepigrapha: More Noncanonical Scriptures, Volume One
• Authors: Richard Bauckham, James R. Davila, Alexander Panayotov
• Volume: One
• Publisher: Eerdmans
• Print Publication Date: 2013
• Logos Release Date: 2014
• Pages: 848
• Era: era:Contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Apocryphal books (Old Testament)
• ISBNs: 9780802827395, 080282739X
• Resource ID: LLS:OTPSDPGRPH01
• Resource Type: text.monograph.ancient-manuscript.translation
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T02:06:02Z

About the Editors

Richard Bauckham is professor emeritus of New Testament studies at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland and senior scholar at Ridley Hall, Cambridge. A fellow of both the British Academy and the Royal Society of Edinburgh, he has also written Bible and Mission: Christian Witness in a Postmodern World, Jude and the Relatives of Jesus in the Early Church, The bible in Politics: How to Read the Bible Politically, and Gospel Women: Studies of the Named Women in the Gospels.

James R. Davila is professor of early Jewish studies at the University of St. Andrews.

Alexander Panayotov is research associate in the Divinity Faculty at the University of Cambridge.