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.

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 S...

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Superior document:Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah Series ; Volume 31
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, The Netherlands : : Brill,, [1999]
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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.
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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.