Jewish and Christian Scriptures The Function of 'Canonical' and 'Non-Canonical' Religious Texts

, by Charlesworth, James H.; McDonald, Lee Martin

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ISBN: 9780567618702 | 0567618706
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Copyright: 7/29/2010

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This volume examines ancient texts in the Jewish-Christian tradition, especially so-called "non-canonical" texts, by focusing on how they were used or functioned in early societies.

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Preface	p. x
Abbreviations	p. xiii
What's Up Now? Renewal of an Important Investigation	p. 1
What Do We Mean by Canon? Ancient and Modern Questions	p. 8
Response: Loren L. Johns	p. 41
The Book of the People from the People of the Book: 1QpHab and Its Scribes	p. 46
Response: Andrei A. Orlov	p. 60
Citation Formulae as Indices to Canonicity in Early Jewish and Early Christian Literature	p. 62
Response: Lee Martin McDonald	p. 85
Rewriting the Sacred: Some Problems of Textual Authority in Light of the Rewritten Scriptures from Qumran	p. 87
Response: Brent A. Strawn	p. 104
Jude's Citation of 1 Enoch	p. 113
Response: Leslie W. Walck	p. 129
The Pseudepigrapha and the New Testament: The Case of the Acts of the Apostles	p. 131
Response: Brian D. Rhea	p. 146
Apocrypha and Liturgy in the Fourth Century: The Case of the "Six Books" Dormition Apocryphon	p. 153
Response: George T. Zervos	p. 164
The Transfiguration Remembered, Reinterpreted, and Re-enacted in Acts of Peter 20-21	p. 173
Response: Henry W. Morisada Rietz	p. 197
Selected Bibliography: Canonical Criticism and the Use of Scriptures in Early Judaism and Early Christianity	p. 201
Indexes	p. 223
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