Old Testament Pseudepigrapha and the Scriptures (2014 Tigchelaar), edited volume

Old Testament Pseudepigrapha and the Scriptures (2014) is a volume edited by Eibert J.C. Tigchelaar.

Abstract

"The 61st Colloquium Biblicum Lovaniense took place from July 26-28, 2012 in the Maria-Theresia College and the Paus Adrianus VI College of the KU Leuven. This 61st Colloquium on Old Testament Pseudepigrapha and the Scriptures, and the preceding 60th Colloquium on Apocryphal Gospels within the context of early Christian theology, may be envisaged as a diptych corresponding to the two scholarly corpora of Old Testament Pseudepigrapha and New Testament Apocrypha that were created by Johann Albert Fabricius, three centuries ago. However, both colloquia had their own particular focus, and the 61st one concentrates on the textual and literary relationships between these Old Testament Pseudepigrapha and the scriptures, in particular the scriptures of the Old Testament ... 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."--Publisher description.

Editions

Published in Leuven: Peeters, 2014.

Contents

Old Testament pseudepigrapha and the Scriptures / Eibert Tigchelaar -- Les rapports avec l'Écriture des textes araméens trouvés à Qumrân / Florentino García Martínez -- A trilogy of testaments? The status of the Testament of Qahat versus texts attributed to Levi and Amram / Hanna Tervanotko -- When giants dreamed about the flood: the Book of giants and its relationship to the Book of watchers / Matthew J. Goff -- Hebrew pseudepigrapha at Qumran / Devorah Dimant -- Mastéma (le diable) est dans les détails: quelques aperçus sur le Livre des jubilés / James Kugel -- The Biblical background of an extra-Biblical conflict account: notes on Jubilees 37,1-13 / Atar Livneh -- Baruch, Jeremiah's "secretary"? The relationships between the book of Jeremiah and the book of Baruch / Georg Fischer -- Les astres errants: l'utilisation des Écritures dans la finale du dernier Psaume de Salomon (Ps. Sal. 18,10-12) / Patrick Pouchelle -- Judges 17-18 as retold in the Biblical antiquities of Pseudo-Philo: what might it tell us about his approach to the "Bible"? / Christopher T. Begg -- Zur literarischen Bedeutung der Sapientia Salomonis im Neuen Testament / Stefan Koch -- Sibylline discourse / John J. Collins -- Beyond authority: the construction of scriptures in the Testament of Abraham / Françoise Mirguet -- The vanishing scriptural scaffolding of The book of the words of Jannes and Jambres and its kindred legends / Jed Wyrick -- The exemplary protagonist: the case of 4 Ezra / Hindy Naiman -- Ezra begins: 4 Ezra as prequel and the making of a superhero / Jason M. Zurawski -- Seven theses concerning the use of Scripture in 4 Ezra and the Latin vision of Ezra / James R. Davila -- Die syrische Baruchapokalypse und die "Schriften": die syrische Baruchapokalypse als "Schrift" / Liv Ingeborg Lied -- Genesis 3 and the Life of Adam and Eve / Johannes Magliano-Tromp -- Die apokryphe "Geschichte Melchisedeks" (HistMelch) als Teil der jüdisch-christlichen Melchisedektradition / Christfried Böttrich -- Die Narratio Zosimi (CAVT 166): ein Vorbericht / Jan Dochhorn -- A Jewish king in Egypt? A note on the so-called History of Joseph / Joseph Verheyden -- Recasting the Bible, recapturing Eden: parascriptural cosmologies in the Byzantine commonwealth / Florentina Badalanova Geller.