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More Old Testament Pseudepigrapha

A project by Richard Bauckham([email protected]) andJames R. Davila (jrd4@st-

andrews.ac.uk), St Andrews University, Scotland

UPDATE: Our Leverhulme Research Fellow,Dr. Alexander Panayotov, arrived in January of 2006.

UPDATE (18 August 2005): Another article from theJewish Telegraphic Agency.

UPDATE (4 August 2005): Articles on the project have appeared in theScotsman, theTelegraph, theTimes, andTotallyJewish.com.

UPDATE (28 July 2005): The project has brought the University of St. Andrews a major research grant from theLeverhulme Trust. Press release here.

It is now twenty years since the second of the two volumes of the Old Testament Pseudepigrapha,

edited by James H. Charlesworth, was first published. The twovolumes have performed an invaluable

service in making available in English translation a wide range of Jewish and Christian works that canbe roughly classified as 'Old Testament Pseudepigrapha.' These volumes have become indispensable

for scholars and postgraduate students (as well as many others) working in the fields of early Judaism,

New Testament and early Christianity.

We believe there is now a need for a supplementary volume, for which we are using the working title

More Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, primarily in order to make available in a similar way many

other Jewish and Christian works in the same categories as those included in J. H. Charlesworth's two

volumes. In addition the progress of research since those two volumes were published means that in

some cases there is important further textual evidence of works that were included in them. We expect

to be able to compile a volume similar in size to one of volumes of Charlesworth's Old Testament

Pseudepigrapha.

Any such project needs to be quite clear about the criteria for inclusion. The category of works we

shall include we define as texts that are attributed to Old Testament characters or set in the Old

Testament period, whatever the provenance of such works. We shall follow Charlesworth in

interpreting relationship to the Old Testament a little generously, so as to include, for example,

Sibylline Oracles, or Jewish wisdom literature. We shall also set a chronological criterion for

inclusion, since without a chronological limit the relevant literature could be vast. Provisionally, we

are working with ca. 600 CE (the rise of Islam) as the cut-off date (later than Charlesworth's date of

200 CE). Much of the literature we are considering has been little studied and is difficult to date. So

we intend to include works for which a reasonable argument for a pre-600 date either has been or can

be made, whether or not we are ourselves entirely convinced of this proposed date. We will include afew clearly later texts whose content bears directly on early material. Our aims, in this respect, are

modest: We do not expect (or expect the contributors to this project) to settle all issues of date,

provenance and so forth. Our primary aim is to make the texts available in English translation, so that

others become aware of these texts and can work on them.

Following the practice of Charlesworth's volumes, we shall not include works that fall into other well-

recognized categories of Jewish or other literature: Dead Sea Scrolls (except in cases of overlap with

Pseudepigrapha), Nag Hammadi library, Rabbinic literature, and Hekhalot literature. We also shall

normally not include sermons, homilies, or the like which retell Old Testament stories but which are

clearly not intended to be read as originating in the Old Testament period.

The following is a provisional and still incomplete list of works to be included:
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~www_sd/bauck1.htmlhttp://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~www_sd/bauck1.htmlhttp://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~www_sd/jrd4.htmlhttp://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~www_sd/jrd4.htmlhttp://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2006_01_01_paleojudaica_archive.html#113740695970093188http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2006_01_01_paleojudaica_archive.html#113740695970093188http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2006_01_01_paleojudaica_archive.html#113740695970093188http://www.jta.org/page_view_story.asp?intarticleid=15717&intcategoryid=5http://heritage.scotsman.com/news.cfm?id=1696092005http://heritage.scotsman.com/news.cfm?id=1696092005http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/07/29/ntext29.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/07/29/ixhome.htmlhttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/07/29/ntext29.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/07/29/ixhome.htmlhttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/07/29/ntext29.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/07/29/ixhome.htmlhttp://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,174-1712547,00.htmlhttp://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,174-1712547,00.htmlhttp://www.totallyjewish.com/news/national/?content_id=1229http://www.totallyjewish.com/news/national/?content_id=1229http://calvin.st-andrews.ac.uk/external_relations/fp_news_article.cfm?reference=830http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0385096305/qid=1122475891/sr=8-2/ref=pd_bbs_2/103-3255037-6990245?v=glance&s=books&n=507846http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0385096305/qid=1122475891/sr=8-2/ref=pd_bbs_2/103-3255037-6990245?v=glance&s=books&n=507846http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0385188137/qid=1122475891/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/103-3255037-6990245?v=glance&s=books&n=507846http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~www_sd/bauck1.htmlhttp://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~www_sd/jrd4.htmlhttp://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2006_01_01_paleojudaica_archive.html#113740695970093188http://www.jta.org/page_view_story.asp?intarticleid=15717&intcategoryid=5http://heritage.scotsman.com/news.cfm?id=1696092005http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/07/29/ntext29.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/07/29/ixhome.htmlhttp://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,174-1712547,00.htmlhttp://www.totallyjewish.com/news/national/?content_id=1229http://calvin.st-andrews.ac.uk/external_relations/fp_news_article.cfm?reference=830http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0385096305/qid=1122475891/sr=8-2/ref=pd_bbs_2/103-3255037-6990245?v=glance&s=books&n=507846http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0385188137/qid=1122475891/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/103-3255037-6990245?v=glance&s=books&n=507846


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Complete or Substantially Complete Works

Adam, Creation of (Slavonic)

Adam, Horarium of

Adam, Octipartite (Slavonic, etc.)

Balaam Text from Deir Alla

Cave of Treasures

Daniel, Armenian Seventh Vision ofDaniel, Syriac Apocalypse of

Daniel, Two Byzantine Greek Apocalypses of

Danielis, Somniale

Danielis, Lunationes

David and Goliath (Aramaic 'Song of the Lamb')

David and Solomon, Selendromion of

Elijah, Hebrew Apocalypse of

Sheva Eliyyahu (Sheva Zutarti) (The Adjuration of Elijah)

Enoch, Ethiopic Vision of

Ezekiel, Visions of

4 Ezra, Armenian version of5 Ezra

6 Ezra

Ezra, Vision of (longer version)

Gad the Seer, Words of

Geniza Wisdom text

Jeremiah, Coptic Apocryphon of (History of the Captivity in Babylon)

Jeremiah's Prophecy to Passhur

Joseph, History of (Syriac)

Joseph, Narrative of (Coptic)

Levi, Aramaic

6-7 Maccabees

Massekhet Kelim (Treatise of the Holy Vessels)

Melchizedek legend in Chronicon Paschale

Melchizedek, Story of (Greek)

Midrash Vayissa'u (Book of the Wars of the Sons of Jacob)

Moses, Eighth Book of

Moses, Sword of (Harba di-Moshe)

Naphtali, Hebrew

Palaea Historica

Pseudo-Philo, Sermons on Jonah, Sermons on Samson

Satanael Text (Slavonic)Sefer ha-Razim (Book of the Mysteries)

Seven Heavens, Apocalypse of the

Shem, Treatise of (Aramaic and Judeo-Arabic versions)

Signs of the Judgment

Sibyl, Latin Prophecy of the

Sibyl, Tiburtine

Solomon, Hygromanteia of (Epistle of Rehoboam)

Solomon, Testament of (Vienna manuscript)

Ten Tribes, Apocryphon of the

Visions of Heaven and Hell

Sefer Zerubbabel (Book of Zerubbabel)


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Manuscript Fragments

Abel apocryphon, Coptic fragment of

Adam and Eve, Life of, Coptic fragments

Daniel, Greek oracles of

Enochic Book of Giants (Aramaic and Manichaean [Iranian and Turkish?] fragments + Midrash of

Shemihazah)

2 Enoch (additions)Two Coptic Enoch apocrypha

Geniza fragments of unknown texts

Jacob, Ladder of (Hebrew prayer from)

Jacob and Joseph, Apocryphon of (Greek)

Papyrus fragments of unknown texts

Quotation Fragments

Quotations, biblical, of lost works

E.g., Num 21:14-18, 27-30; Josh 10:12-13; 2 Sam 2:17-27; 1 Kgs 8:12-13 LXX)

Quotations, OT related, not attributed to a specific work"The prophet" -- two quotations from Epistula Apostolorum 11, 47

Quotations of named works or stories

Abraham, astrological work of quoted in Vettius Valens

Abraham, 'Inquisitio' of

Baruch, Book of (Hyppolytus,Ref. 5.20-22; 10:11)

Daniel (quoted in Armenian fragment of Papias)

Elijah, Apocalypses and Apocrypha of (fragments)

Ezekiel, Apocryphon of (additional fragments)

Hystaspes, Oracle of

8 Maccabees (Seleucid History in Malalas)

Life of Mani, auotations from unknown texts in

Moses, Assumption of (fragments)

Moses, Testament of (fragments)

Noah, Book of (material in Book of Assaf/Asaph)

Patristic quotations of unknown texts

Surid Legend (Arabic legend of the Pyramids and the Flood)

Zechariah and King Joash (Historia Ecclesiastica of Salaminius Hermias Sozomenus; PG 67.1269b)

We hope also to include a comprehensive list of all known (extant or lost) Old TestamentPseudepigrapha from antiquity to the present.

We welcome any suggestions or comments that would help us make this collection as useful as

possible.

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