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1 online resource (xxii, 226 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Jewish and Christian texts in contexts and related studies ; 7
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Jewish and Christian texts in contexts and related studies ; v. 7.
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| Bibliography |
"Selected bibliography: Canonical criticism and the use of scriptures in early Judaism and early Christianity": pages 201-221. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
What's up now? : renewal of an important investigation / James A. Sanders -- What do we mean by canon? : ancient and modern questions / Lee Martin McDonald -- Response / Loren L. Johns -- The Book of the People from the people of the book : 1QpHab and its scribes / James Hamilton Charlesworth -- Response / Andrei A. Orlov -- Citation formulae as indices to canonicity in early Jewish and early Christian literature / Kenneth M. Penner -- Response / Lee Martin McDonald -- Rewriting the sacred : some problems of textual authority in light of the rewritten scriptures from Qumran / Casey D. Elledge -- Response / Brent A. Strawn -- Jude's citation of 1 Enoch / Jeremy Hultin -- Response / Leslie W. Walck -- The Pseudepigrapha and the New Testament : the case of the Acts of the Apostles / Craig A. Evans -- Response / Brian D. Rhea -- Apocrypha and liturgy in the fourth century : the case of the "six books" Dormition apocryphon / Stephen J. Shoemaker -- Response / George T. Zervos -- The transfiguration remembered, reinterpreted, and re-enacted in Acts of Peter 20-21 / Simon S. Lee -- Response / Henry W. Morisada Rietz. |
| Summary |
Over the past four decades, many scholars have focused on the expanding collection of alleged "extra-canonical" documents that were deemed inspired by God in numerous early Jewish and Christian groups. Eventually, these texts ceased to have an authoritative role in Judaism and Christianity and were branded "extra-canonical." Now, these documents, once considered sacred, are recognized as fundamental in understanding antiquity, and the development of the canon. Many scholars are now according an authority to some of these texts. This volume draws attention to these ancient religious texts, espe. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Bible. Apocrypha -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Bible. Apocrypha. |
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Bible. Old Testament. Apocrypha -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
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Bible. Apocrypha. |
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Aufsatzsammlung.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Author |
Charlesworth, James H.
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McDonald, Lee Martin, 1942-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Jewish and Christian scriptures. London ; New York : T & T Clark, ©2010 9780567618702 (DLC) 2010281229 (OCoLC)466343827 |
| ISBN |
9780567372581 (electronic book) |
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0567372588 (electronic book) |
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1283197235 |
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9781283197236 |
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9780567618702 |
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0567618706 |
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