THE BOOK is now being advertised on the Brill website. I can't find a permalink, but you'll find it if you search for the keywords "provenance" and "pseudepigrapha." [Permalink now added.]

The Provenance of the Pseudepigrapha
Jewish, Christian, or Other?
James R. Davila

Not yet published. Expected
ISBN 90 04 13752 1
Cloth with dustjacket (270 pp.)
List price: EUR 99.- / US$ 142.-
Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism, 105

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Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism

The Old Testament pseudepigrapha are ancient quasi-biblical texts inspired by the Hebrew Bible. Although frequently mined as Jewish background by New Testament specialists, they were transmitted almost entirely in Christian circles, often only in translation. Christian authors wrote some pseudepigrapha and did not necessarily always mention explicitly Christian topics. This book challenges the assumption that pseudepigrapha are Jewish compositions until proven otherwise. It proposes a methodology for understanding them first in the social context of their earliest manuscripts, inferring still earlier origins only as required by positive evidence while considering the full range of possible authors (Jews, Christians, "God-fearers," Samaritans, etc.). It analyzes a substantial corpus of pseudepigrapha, distinguishing those that are probably Jewish from those of more doubtful origins.

Readership: All those interested in Old Testament pseudepigrapha and apocrypha; Judaism in the Hellenistic period and late antiquity; the Jewish background of the New Testament; early Christianity; and early Jewish–Christian relations.

James R. Davila, Ph.D., Harvard University, is Lecturer in Early Jewish Studies at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, and the author of Liturgical Works (Eerdmans, 2000) and Descenders to the Chariot: The People behind the Hekhalot Literature (Brill, 2003).

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