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This is a comprehensive study of the ancient Jewish and Christian apocalypses involving ascent into heaven, which have hitherto received little scholarly attention in comparson to apocalypses concerned primarily with the end of the world. Martha Himmelfarb places the ascent apo…
From the back cover: "This volume explores the fundamentals of intertextual methodology and summarizes recent scholarship on studies of intertextuality in the deuterocanonical books. The essays engage in comparison and analysis of text groups and motifs between canonical, deuter…
"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 ve…
This study addresses the problem of the existence of sin and the determination of its source as reflected in texts of the Second Temple period. The study surveys the relevant Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha, and Dead Sea Scrolls, as well as the works of Philo and (where relevant) Jose…
According to the Church's most venerable traditions, it was the evangelist reputed to have written the Second Gospel who was first to proclaim the Christian message in the Nile Valley; Mark the Evangelist was Alexandria's first bishop and first martyr, his miracles, prodigies an…
The focus of this study is biblical interpretation in the Wisdom of Solomon: how does Ps-Solomon understand the biblical texts he discusses or alludes to, and where do his ideas come from? Although this issue has not been entirely neglected in previous scholarship, most commenta…
This study analyzes a poorly-known ancient Christian apocryphal writing, termed the Revelation of the Magi. This document purports to be the personal testimony of the biblical Magi on the coming of Christ, and is the longest and most complex narrative devoted to the Magi survivi…
