"The author presents a comprehensive historical examination of the early Christian Graeco-Latin translations of the biblical 'apocrypha' and 'pseudepigrapha.' The analysis of the translation techniques employed yields a distinction between 'literal' and 'adaptive' translations o…
The Canon of the Bible and the Apocrypha in the Churches of the East features essays reflecting the latest scholarly research in the field of the canon of the Bible and related apocryphal books, with special attention given to the early Christian literature of Eastern churches. …
Jews have sometimes been reluctant to claim Jesus as one of their own; Christians have often been reluctant to acknowledge the degree to which Jesus' message and mission were at home amidst, and shaped by, the Judaism of the Second Temple Period. In this book, David deSilva intr…
Jews have sometimes been reluctant to claim Jesus as one of their own; Christians have often been reluctant to acknowledge the degree to which Jesus' message and mission were at home amidst, and shaped by, the Judaism(s) of the Second Temple Period. In The Jewish Teachers of Jes…