Ancient Jewish and Christian Scriptures
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Ancient Jewish and Christian Scriptures examines the writings included in and excluded from the Jewish and Christian canons of Scripture and explores the social settings in which some of this literature was viewed as authoritative and some was viewed either as uninspired or as heretical. John J. Collins, Craig A. Evans, and Lee Martin McDonald examine how those noncanonical writings demonstrate the historical, literary, and religious aspects of the culture that gave rise to the writings. They also show how literature excluded from the Jewish and Christian canons of Scripture remains valuable today for understanding the questions and conflicts that early Jewish and Christian faith communities faced. Through this discussion, contemporary readers acquire a broader understanding of biblical Scripture and of Jewish and Christian faith inspired by Scripture.
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John J. Collinsis Holmes Professor of Old Testament Criticism and Interpretation at Yale Divinity School. His books includeJewish Wisdom in the Hellenistic Age;Apocalypse, Prophecy, and Pseudepigraphy: On Jewish Apocalyptic Literature; The Invention of Judaism: Torah and Jewish Identity from Deuteronomy to Paul; and, most recently, What Are Biblical Values? What the Bible Says on Key Ethical Issues.Collins serves as general editor of the Anchor Yale Bible and Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library. He is on the editorial board of theJournal for the Study of JudaismandDead Sea Discoveries.Previously, he has served as President of the Society of Biblical Literature and the Catholic Biblical Association.
Content
- Intro
- Endorsements
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction (Collins, Evans, McDonald)
- 1. The Penumbra of the Canon: What Do the Deuterocanonical Books Represent? (Collins)
- 2. Beyond the Canon: The Recovery of the Pseudepigrapha (Collins)
- 3. Nonbiblical Literature in the Dead Sea Scrolls (Collins)
- 4. Recognizing Jewish Religious Texts as Scripture (McDonald)
- 5. Forming Jewish Scriptures as a Biblical Canon (McDonald)
- 6. Recognizing Christian Religious Texts as Scripture (McDonald)
- 7. Forming Christian Scriptures as a Biblical Canon (McDonald)
- 8. The Christian Apocrypha (Evans)
- 9. The Gospels of Peter and Thomas (Evans)
- Conclusion (Collins, Evans, McDonald)
- Bibliography
- Index of Ancient Writings
- Index of Modern Authors
- Index of Subjects
- Excerpt from Forgotten Scriptures: The Selection and Rejection of Early Religious Writings, by Lee Martin McDonald
