Pseudepigraphic Perspectives : : the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls : proceedings of the International Symposium of the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature, 12-14 January, 1997 / / edited by Esther G. Chazon and Michael Stone ; with collaboration of Avital Pinnick.

• Superior document: Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah Series ; Volume 31
• Author: Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature. International Symposium
• TeilnehmendeR: Chazon, Esther G.,; Stone, Michael E., 1938-; Pinnick, Avital,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands : : Brill,, [1999]; ©1999
• Year of Publication: 1999
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies on the texts of the desert of Judah ; Volume 31.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (viii, 217 pages)
• Notes: Includes index.

This volume of symposium papers examines the attribution of books to great figures in antiquity: Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Levi, Moses, Ezekiel, Daniel and others. The authors offer fine literary studies of these pseudepigraphical writings, assess the uses of pseudonymity and anonymity in the Dead Sea Scrolls and rabbinic literature, and explore the theological, social and historical implications of the different attributions and approaches. The consequences of assigning the origins of evil to humans (Adam and Eve) or to demons (the generations of Enoch and Noah) and the significance of each author's choice of pseudepigrahical pseudonym for identifying his social context are among the important issues addressed.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- PREFACE -- PSEUDEPIGRAPHY IN THE QUMRAN SCROLLS: CATEGORIES AND FUNCTIONS / MOSHE J. BERNSTEIN -- PSEUDEPIGRAPHY IN RABBINIC LITERATURE / MARC BREGMAN -- PSEUDEPIGRAPHY AND GROUP FORMATION IN SECOND TEMPLE JUDAISM / JOHN J. COLLINS -- THE NAMING OF LEVI IN THE BOOK OF JUBILEES / BETSY HALPERN-AMARU -- LEVI IN ARAMAIC LEVI AND IN THE TESTAMENT OF LEVI / MARINUS DE JONGE -- THE NATURE AND FUNCTION OF REVELATION IN 1 ENOCH, JUBILEES, AND SOME QUMRANIC DOCUMENTS / GEORGE W. E. NICKELSBURG -- THE TEMPLE SCROLL AND THE HALAKHIC PSEUDEPIGRAPHA OF THE SECOND TEMPLE PERIOD / LAWRENCE H. SCHIFFMAN -- THE AXIS OF HISTORY AT QUMRAN / MICHAEL E. STONE -- THE ANGEL STORY IN THE BOOK OF JUBILEES / JAMES C. VANDERKAM -- QUMRAN AND THE BOOK OF NOAH / CANA WERMAN -- QUMRAN PSEUDEPIGRAPHA IN EARLY CHRISTIANITY / BENJAMIN G. WRIGHT -- INDEX OF ANCIENT SOURCES -- INDEX OF MODERN AUTHORS -- STUDIES ON THE TEXTS OF THE DESERT OF JUDAH.