The Pseudepigrapha and Christian Origins: Essays from the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas [Paperback]

In the Seminar The Pseudepigrapha and Christian Origins of the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas , chaired from 2000 to 2006 by Professors James H. Charlesworth (Princeton) and Gerbern S. Oegema (McGill), the relation between the Pseudepigrapha and the New Testament has been discussed systematically and intensively in a way never seen before. The Pseudepigrapha investigated included the Old Testament ones and those found in the Qumran as well as the Pseudepigrapha of the New Testament and the ones used in the Early Church. The seminar and its participants, who were all internally renowned experts from around the world, have focused on the use, adaptation, reinterpretation and further development of non-canonical traditions (except for Philo, Josephus, the Essene and early Rabbinic writings) in the canonical writings of Early Christianity. The seminar has met in total five times in various locations, while systematically being arranged around the following topics: The Pseudepigrapha and the Synoptic Gospels, the Gospel of John, the Epistles of Paul, the Other New Testament Writings, and the Revelation of John.

Gerbern S. Oegemais Professor of Biblical Studies and Founder of the Center for Research on Religion at McGill University, Canada.

James H. Charlesworthis 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.

I. Preface, byJohn M. Court(Editor of SNTS Monograph Series)

II. The Pseudepigrapha and Christian Origins(Montreal, 2001)
James H. Charlesworth and Gerbern S. Oegema, Introduction: The Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament and Their Reception in Early Christianity
Lorenzo DiTommaso(Concordia University), The Pseudepigrapha and Christianlc@