Parallel Apocrypha
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The Parallel Apocrypha
Author: John R. Kohlenberger (III)
language: en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date: 1997
Features: Greek (Rahlfs Ed.), KJV, Douay Bible, The Holy Bible by Ronald Knox, TEV, NRSV, NAB, and NJB Comprehensive essay on the content and character of the Apocrypha and six essays on the role of the Apocrypha in Judaism and several Christian traditions 1,248 pp.
Introduction to the Apocrypha
Author: Lawrence M. Wills
language: en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date: 2021-06-22
An ambitious introduction to the Apocrypha that encourages readers to reimagine what "canon" really means Challenging the way Christian and non-Christian readers think about the Apocrypha, this is an ambitious introduction to the deuterocanonical texts of the Christian Old Testaments. Lawrence Wills introduces these texts in their original Jewish environment while addressing the very different roles they had in various Christian canons. Though often relegated to a lesser role, a sort of "Bible-Lite," these texts deserve renewed attention, and this book shows how they hold more interest for both ancient and contemporary communities than previously thought.
Afterlife and Resurrection Beliefs in the Apocrypha and Apocalyptic Literature
Author: Jan Age Sigvartsen
language: en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date: 2019-09-19
Jan A. Sigvartsen seeks to examine the immense interest in life after death, and speculation about the fates awaiting both the righteous and the wicked, that proliferated in the Second Temple period. In this volume Sigvartsen explores the Apocrypha and the apocalyptic writings in the Pseudepigrapha. He identifies the numerous afterlife and resurrection beliefs and presents an analysis that enables readers to easily understand and compare the wide-ranging beliefs regarding the afterlife that these texts hold. A careful reading of these resurrection passages, including passages appearing in Sirach, Maccabees, the Sibylline Oracles and the Ezra texts, reveals that most of the distinct views on life-after-death, regardless of their complexity, show little evidence of systematic development relational to one another, and are often supported by several key passages or shared motifs from texts that later became a part of the TaNaKh. Sigvartsen also highlights the factors that may have influenced the development of so many different resurrection beliefs; including anthropology, the nature of the soul, the scope of the resurrection, the number and function of judgments, and the final destination of the righteous and the wicked. Sigvartsen's study provides a deeper understanding of how the “TaNaKh” was read by different communities during this important period, and the role it played in the development of the resurrection belief – a central article of faith in both Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism.