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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewReaders looking for material on the Christian apocrypha must look to The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Apocrypha...some of the contributions here are excellent and informed starting places for their respective subjects, and there is much value in the new Oxford Handbook of the Apocrypha. * Daniel M. Gurtner, Journal for the Study of Judaism *
This volume is a remarkable achievement and sure to be a standard reference tool going forward. Students will especially benefit from the essays, as will scholars working on adjacent fields. The volume would make an excellent textbook on a course on the Apocrypha. * Jason Maston, Religious Studies Review *
The comprehensive, up-to-date volume ends with indexes of passages, subjects and ancient texts and modern authors. The authors have provided an introduction to the Apocrypha and their scholarly discussion which has the full potential to become the point of reference for the next two decades. * C. Stenschke, Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses *
authoritative * HYWEL CLIFFORD, Journal for the Study of the Old Testament *
The Oxford Handbook of the Apocrypha will be an important volume for students, scholars, and interested laypeople. It accomplished exactly what one would hope for in the title ... I was impressed and informed, then, by this collection of essays by top scholars. * Lawrence M. Wills, RBL *
Table of ContentsPreface Contributors Part I: The Apocrypha in Judaism and Christianity The Apocrypha: An Introduction 1. The Apocrypha in the Context of Early Judaism 2. The Apocrypha, the Septuagint, and other Greek Witnesses 3. A Canonical History of the Old Testament Apocryphay 4. The Apocrypha in the History of Christianity 5. The Protestant Reception of the Apocrypha Part II: The Apocrypha Historical and Legendary: 6. Apocrypha, Genre, and Historicity 7. 1 Esdras (Greek Ezra) 8. Baruch 9. Book of Judith 10. 1 Maccabees' Ethics, Etiquette, Political Theology, and Structure 11. 2 Maccabees 12. 3 Maccabees 13. 4 Maccabees Apocalyptic: 14. The Apocrypha and Apocalypticism 15. 2 Esdras Didactic: 16. Wisdom Literature of the Apocrypha and Related Compositions of the Second Temple Era 17. Sirach 18. Tobit 19 .The Wisdom of Solomon Additions to Biblical Books: 20. The Additions to Daniel 21. The Additions of the Greek Book(s) of Esther 22. Epistle of Jeremiah 23. Prayer of Manasseh 24. Psalm 151-155 Part III: Major Themes in the Apocrypha 25. Jewish Religion in the Apocrypha: Between Biblical Precepts and Early Rabbinic Thought 26. Women and Gender in the Apocrypha 27. Theology and Ethics in the Apocrypha 28. Sexuality in the Apocrypha 29. Biblical Theology and the Apocrypha Index
