Category:OT Apocrypha Studies

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Overview

OT Apocrypha Studies / Studies in the OT Apocrypha is a field of research in Second Temple Judaism, that specializes in the study of the OT Apocrypha.

4 Enoch treats the OT Apocrypha as a corpus of Second Temple Literature. The Encyclopedia includes editions, translations, and monographs on the corpus of the OT Apocrypha as well as on each of the documents in the collection.

The material can be sort out thematically or chronologically as well as by the languages and countries of origin.

For biographical information on scholars and authors, see OT Apocrypha Scholars.

The Old Testament Apocrypha have been published (in the original language or in translation) in many editions of both the Bible and the Old Testament or as a separate corpus or sometimes, together with the OT Pseudepigrapha.

Likewise, general Introductions to the OT Apocrypha are found in many commentaries or introductions to either the Bible or the Old Testament.

History of research

The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha is a modern collection of ancient Jewish documents, mostly from the Second Temple period, which were not included in the later Rabbinic and Christian canons.

While some documents were already known and had been previously published, they began to be studied as one literary corpus since the publication of the first collection of texts by Fabricius in the early 18th century.

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