The Pseudepigrapha and Christian Origins Essays from the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas

In the Seminar "The Pseudepigrapha and Christian Origins" of the "Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas", chaired from 2000 to 2006 by Professors James H. Charlesworth (Princeton) and Gerbern S. Oegema (McGill), the relation between the Pseudepigrapha and the New Testament has been discussed systematically and intensively in a way never seen before. The Pseudepigrapha investigated included the Old Testament ones and those found in the Qumran as well as the Pseudepigrapha of the New Testament and the ones used in the Early Church. The seminar and its participants, who were all internally renowned experts from around the world, have focused on the use, adaptation, reinterpretation and further development of non-canonical traditions (except for Philo, Josephus, the Essene and early Rabbinic writings) in the canonical writings of Early Christianity. The seminar has met in total five times in various locations, while systematically being arranged around the following topics: The Pseudepigrapha and the Synoptic Gospels, the Gospel of John, the Epistles of Paul, the Other New Testament Writings, and the Revelation of John.

I. Preface, by John M. Court (Editor of SNTS Monograph Series)II. The Pseudepigrapha and Christian Origins (Montreal, 2001) James H. Charlesworth and Gerbern S. Oegema, Introduction: The Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament and Their Reception in Early Christianity

Lorenzo DiTommaso (Concordia University), The Pseudepigrapha and Christian Origins: An Explosion of International Interest

Loren T. Stuckenbruck (University of Durham), Magic in the Book of Tobit

III. The Pseudepigrapha and the Gospel of John (Durham, 2002) Kingsley Barrett (University of Durham), The Gospel of John and Jewish Literature Contemporaneous with It: Reflections Since My Youth

Daniel Boyarin (University of California at Berkeley), The Fourth Gospel as a Jewish Pseudepigraphon

James H. Charlesworth (Princeton Theological Seminary), The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha and the Gospel of John

IV. The Pseudepigrapha and Paul (Bonn, 2003) Jack R. Levinson (Seattle Pacific University): Adam and Eve in the Pseudepigrapha and the Letters of Paul

Johannes Tromp (Rijksuniverseit Leiden): Adam Traditions in the Epistles of Paul and the Christian Version of the Greek Life of Adam and Eve

Jan Dochhorn (Universitat Gottingen), Vita Adae et Evae

James D.G. Dunn (University of Durham): Adam in Paul

V. The Pseudepigrapha and Luke-Acts (Barcelona, 2004) Petr Pokorny (Charles University