Old Testament Pseudepigrapha and the Scriptures

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.