Pseudepigrapha and Christian Origins
Essays from the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas
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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN: 9780567027191
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 01/01/2009
In the Seminar "The Pseudepigrapha and Christian Origins of the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas," chaired from 2000 to 2006 by Professors James H. Charlesworth (Princeton) and Gerbern S. Oegema (McGill), the relation between the Pseudepigrapha and the New Testament has been discussed systematically and intensively in a way never seen before. The seminar and its participants have focused on the use, adaptation, reinterpretation and further development of non-canonical traditions in the canonical writings of Early Christianity.The Pseudepigrapha investigated included the Old Testament ones and those found in the Qumran as well as the Pseudepigrapha of the New Testament and the ones used in the Early Church. The seminar and its participants, who were all internally renowned experts from around the world, have focused on the use, adaptation, reinterpretation and further development of non-canonical traditions (except for Philo, Josephus, the Essene and early Rabbinic writings) in the canonical writings of Early Christianity.
The seminar has met in total five times in various locations, while systematically being arranged around the following topics: The Pseudepigrapha and the Synoptic Gospels, the "Gospel of John", the "Epistles of Paul", the Other New Testament Writings, and the "Revelation of John".This series focuses on early Jewish and Christian texts and their formative contexts also includes sourcebooks that help clarify the ancient world. Five aspects distinguish this series. First, the series reflects the need to situate, and to seek to understand, these ancient texts within their originating social and historical contexts. Second, the series assumes that it is now often difficult to distinguish between Jewish and Christian documents, since all early 'Christians' were Jews. Jesus and his earliest followers were devout Jews who shared many ideas with the well-known Jewish groups, especially the Pharisees, the Essenes, and the various apocalyptic groups.Third, the series recognizes that there were (and still are) many ways of understanding authoritative literature or scripture.
Therefore, we must not impose a static notion of 'canon' on the early period of our culture and in turn denigrate some texts with labels such as 'non-canonical', since such terms are anachronistic designations that were only later imposed on the early documents. Fourth, the series emphasizes the need to include all relevant sources and documents, including non-literary data, and that all important methodologies - from archaeology and sociology to rhetoric and theology - should be employed to clarify the origin and meaning of the documents. Fifth, scientific research is at the foundation of these publications which are directed to scholars and those interested in Jewish and Christian origins.
I. Preface, by John M. Court (Editor of SNTS Monograph Series); II. The Pseudepigrapha and Christian Origins (Montreal, 2001); James H. Charlesworth and Gerbern S. Oegema, Introduction: The Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament and Their Reception in Early Christianity; Lorenzo DiTommaso (Concordia University), The Pseudepigrapha and Christian Origins: An Explosion of International Interest; Loren T. Stuckenbruck (University of Durham), Magic in the Book of Tobit; III. The Pseudepigrapha and the Gospel of John (Durham, 2002); Kingsley Barrett (University of Durham), The Gospel of John and Jewish Literature Contemporaneous with It: Reflections Since My Youth; Daniel Boyarin (University of California at Berkeley), The Fourth Gospel as a Jewish Pseudepigraphon; James H. Charlesworth (Princeton Theological Seminary), The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha and the Gospel of John; IV. The Pseudepigrapha and Paul (Bonn, 2003); Jack R. Levinson (Seattle Pacific University): Adam and Eve in the Pseudepigrapha and the Letters of Paul; Johannes Tromp (Rijksuniverseit Leiden): Adam Traditions in the Epistles of Paul and the Christian Version of the Greek Life of Adam and Eve; Jan Dochhorn (Universitat Gottingen), Vita Adae et Evae; James D.G. Dunn (University of Durham): Adam in Paul; V. The Pseudepigrapha and Luke-Acts (Barcelona, 2004); Petr Pokorny (Charles University Prague), The Pseudepigrapha and the Origins of Christology; Craig A. Evans (Acadia Divinity School), Why the Old Testament Pseudepigrapha is Essential in Studying Acts; Gerbern S. Oegema (McGill University), The Coming of the Righteous One in 1 Enoch, Qumran and the New Testament; VI. The Pseudepigrapha and the Revelation of John (Aberdeen, 2006); David E. Aune (University of Notre Dame): The Apocalypse of John and Palestinian Jewish Apocalypses; James H. Charlesworth (Princeton Theological Seminary): The Parables of Enoch and the Apocalypse of John; Gerbern S. Oegema (McGill University): The Apocalypse of John and Early Christian Apocrypha; VII. Postscript (Princeton, 2007); Lee Martin McDonald, What Ancient Manuscripts Tell us about the New Testament Canon; Indices.
This is an interesting collection of essays, arising from meetings of The Pseudepigrapha and Christian Origins seminar of SNTS between 2000 and 2006.--Sanford Lakoff