Qumran Cave 4. XVII. Parabiblical Texts, Part 3

Publication Date: 
1996
Author(s): 
George Brooke, John Collins, Torleif Elgvin, Peter Flint, Jonas Greenfield, Erik Larson, Carol Newsom, Puech, Lawrence Schiffman, with James VanderKam (Contributor)
ISBN Number: 
9780200000000
Publisher Site/Purchasing Link: 
Oxford University Press
Author (Faculty Member): 
John Collins

This volume contains a collection of Jewish works composed during the intertestamental period linked to biblical texts through characters, themes, or genre. Some of these were known previously as part of the Pseudepigrapha, while others were not previously known. They all enhance our understanding of the phenomenon of pseudepigraphy (writing in the name of a famous biblical or religious character) and of biblical interpretation during the Second Temple period.