THE BOOK has been sent to the publisher. It went off this afternoon by airmail to Leiden (Brill) in its final, edited, proofread, approved, to-be-published form. In the past Brill has provided a very good turnaround time at this stage -- one of a number of reasons why I keep publishing with them. So, with luck, you may be able to find it in print at the SBL meetings in Philadelphia in November. The title is now The Provenance of the Pseudepigrapha: Jewish, Christian, or Other? and it will be in the Journal for the Study of Judaism Supplement Series.

The Next Book is an English translation of the Hekhalot Literature. Much of the work is already done, but it needs a lot of going over, pulling together, writing up, introduction writing, etc. I have several articles to finish in the coming months, so it will be a while before I get to work seriously again on any book writing.