Book Notice: THE PSEUDEPIGRAPHA AND CHRISTIAN ORIGINS

T & T Clark’s The Pseudepigrapha and Christian Origins is a publication that arises from papers given in the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas from 2000-2006 (book eds. G.S. Oegema and J.H. Charlesworth; 2008).  The essays are divided into 5 groups: the Pseudepigrapha (P.) and Christian Origins [introductory issues], P. and the synoptic Gospels, P. and Paul, P. and Luke-Acts, and P. and the Revelation of John. The book also contains a ‘postscript’ by Lee Martin McDonald that deals with ‘Ancient Bible manuscripts and the Biblical Canon’.

Highlights:

Introductory issues: John Court, Richard Bauckham and Lorenzo DiTommaso discuss issues such as the provenance of the P. and how P. research has developed after the OTP volumes.

Paul: Adam is a major topic of interest with respect to the Life of Adam and Even; Dunn offers a view of Adam in Paul with the P. in mind.

Luke-Acts: Craig Evans gives attention to ‘The P. and the problem of Background “Parallels” in the Study of the Acts of the Apostles’;

Revelation: David Aune looks at the genre of apocalyptic with interest in the Apocalypse of John.

I would like to comment further (when I have more reading time) on a few of these (esp. Dunn, Evans, and McDonald).

It is always nice to see SNTS making their cutting edge work available to us wide-eyed outsiders with a glass to the

door 🙂

Certainly ask your academic library to get a copy of this. You are probably not going to want to fork out £70 for this!