Exploring the
Scripturesque
Jewish Texts and their Christian Contexts
by
Robert Alan Kraft
LEIDEN
• BOSTON
2009
Supplements
to the
Journal for the
Study
of Judaism
Editor
Hindy Najman
Department of
Near and
Middle Eastern Civilizations, University of Toronto
Associate
Editors
Florentino
García Martínez
Qumran
Institute, University
of Groningen
Benjamin G.
Wright, III
Department of
Religion
Studies, Lehigh
University
Advisory Board
j.j. collins –
j. duhaime –
a. hilhorst
p.w. van der
horst – a.
klostergaard petersen
m.a. knibb –
j.t.a.g.m. van
ruiten – j. sievers
g. stemberger –
e.j.c.
tigchelaar – j. tromp
VOLUME 137
This book is
printed on
acid-free paper.
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Congress
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ISSN: 0083-5889
ISBN: 978 90 04
17010 0
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CONTENTS
Introduction..................................................................................................................................
vii
PART ONE
GENERAL CONTEXT
AND
METHODOLOGY
Chapter One. The
Pseudepigrapha in Christianity ............................................................................... 3
<>Chapter Two. The
Pseudepigrapha and Christianity, Revisited: Setting the
Stage and
Framing Some Central Questions
.......................................................................................................
35
<>
Chapter Three.
Christian
Transmission of Greek Jewish Scriptures: A
Methodological
Probe............. 61
<>
Chapter Four.
The Weighing
of the Parts: Pivots and Pitfalls in the Study of
Early
Judaisms
and their Early Christian Offspring
.......................................................................................................
83
<>
Chapter Five.
Combined
Review:
The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha,
Edited by
James H. Charlesworth
The Apocryphal
Old
Testament, Edited by H.F.D. Sparks ................................................................. 93
PART TWO
SELECTED
SPECIFIC STUDIES
<>Chapter Six.
Reassessing the
“Recensional Problem” in Testament of
Abraham................................ 109
<>
Chapter Seven.
“Ezra”
Materials in Judaism and Christianity...............................................................
129
<>
Chapter Eight.
Towards
Assessing the Latin Text of “5 Ezra”: The Christian
Connection...................... 149
<>
Chapter Nine.
Enoch and
Written Authorities in Testaments of the 12
Patriarchs..............................
163
<>
Chapter Ten. The
Dialogue of
Timothy and Aquila and its Echoes of
Judaism ..................................
173
PART THREE
SOME RELATED
STUDIES
Chapter Eleven.
Pliny on
Essenes, Pliny on Jews .............................................................................. 199
Chapter Twelve
a–b. Philo on
Seth, Philo on Enoch .......................................................................... 209
<>Chapter
Thirteen. Philo’s
Treatment of the Number Seven in On Creation ........................................
217
<>
Chapter
Fourteen. Philo and
the Sabbath Crisis: Alexandrian
Jewish Politics
and the
Dating of Philo’s Works
......................................................................................................................
239
<>
Chapter Fifteen.
Tiberius
Julius Alexander and the Crisis in Alexandria
according to Josephus ............ 249
Review and
Prospects
......................................................................................................................
261
<>Comprehensive
Index (with
Bibliography, Abbreviations, URLs) ....................................................... 263