"Non-canonical" Religious Texts in Early Judaism and Early Christianity

James H. Charlesworth is George L. Collord Professor of New Testament Language and Literature at Princeton Theological Seminary and director of the seminary's Dead Sea Scrolls Project. He is the author of The Beloved Disciple (Trinity) and co-editor of the Trinity Press Faith and Scholarship Colloquies (FSC) Series. Lee M. McDonald is President Emeritus and Professor of New Testament Studies Emeritus of Acadia Divinity School, Nova Scotia and Adjunct Professor of New Testament at Fuller Theological Seminary. He serves as Scholar in Residence for the American Baptist Churches of Los Angeles and the American Baptist Congregations of the Southwest and Hawaii.

• Contributors; Abbreviations; Introduction, James H. Charlesworth and Lee M. McDonald; Early Judaism and Modern Culture: Reflections on the Theological Relevance of Early Jewish Literature, Gerbern S. OegemaChristians in Egypt: A Preliminary Survey of Christian Literature Found in Oxyrhynchus, Craig A. Evans; Reception of the Pseudepigrapha in Syriac Traditions: The Case of 2 Baruch, Liv Ingeborg Lied; The Coptic, Arabic and Ethiopic Versions of the Testament of Abraham and the Emergence of the Testaments of Isaac and Jacob, K. Marin Heider; The Son of David in Psalms of Solomon 17, H. Daniel Zacharias; The Enochic Library of the Author of the Epistle of Barnabas, Eric Rowe; Ruminating on the Canonical Process in Light of a Bodmer Papyrus Anthology (P72), James H. Charlesworth; The Hebrew Gospel in Early Christianity, James R. Edwards; Trapped in a Forgerer's Rhetoric: 3 Corinthians, Pseudepigraphy, and the Legacy of Ancient Polemics, Caleb Webster; The Place of the Shepherd of Hermas in the Canon Debate, David Nielsen; The Protevangelium of James and the Composition of the Bodmer Miscellaneous Codex: Chronology, Theology, and Liturgy, George T. Zervos; The Child Mary in the Protevangelium of James, Mary F. Foskett; Purity, Piety, and the Purposes of the Protevangelium of James, Lily Vuong; Thecla Desexualized: The Saint Justina Legend and the Reception of the Christian Apocrypha in Late Antiquity, Brian Sowers; Selected Bibliography: "Noncanonical" Religious Texts and Their Reception in Early Judaism and Early Christianity, Arthur C. Boulet; Indexes.

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