Re: [Megillot] reception history of Pseudepigrapha?

[James Davila]

I fear that the Old Testament Pseudepigrapha is still largely off the 
public radar.  On PaleoJudaica (paleojudaica.blogspot.com) I have been 
tracking such things for the last couple of years and the term 
Pseudepigrapha has been mentioned in the mainstream media only once or 
twice per year.  References to the individual works (especially Enochic 
stuff) is a little more common, but still very rare compared to the 
nearly daily mention of the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Perhaps my project with Richard Bauckham to publish More Old Testament 
Pseudepigrapha will raise the profile of the subject a little.  
(http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/academic/divinity/MOTP/index-motp.html).

There has been some discussion of the scholarly reception history of 
the OTP.  There's H. Dixon Slingerland, _The Testaments of the Twelve 
Patriarchs: A Critical History of Research_ (SBLMS 21; Missoula, Mont.: 
 Scholars Press, 1977).  Marinus de Jonge's recent book, 
_Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament as Part of Christian Literature: 
The Case of the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs and the Greek Life 
of Adam and Eve_ ( Leiden:  Brill, 2003), pays some attention to 
reception history.  And various articles in the _Journal for the Study 
of the Pseudepigrapha_ have been devoted to the history of the 
scholarship of individual OTP books.

Hope this helps.
Jim Davila
On Sunday, February 20, 2005, at 03:49  pm, Søren Holst wrote:
Hope this is not TOO far off-topic:
The thought occurred to me: Qumran finds have aroused considerable 
interest and even speculation among non-specialists. The same happened 
with cuneiform finds a goodish half-century earlier (Bibel-Babel 
controversy and all that). But how about the pseudepigrapha? Many 
(all?) of these were unknown to western scholarship, and certainly to 
the public, until some time in the 19th century. What was the reaction 
to their eventual publication? Has anything been written on their 
"reception history" in modern culture and scholarship?

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Dr. Jim Davila
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St. Mary's College
University of St. Andrews
St. Andrews, Fife, KY16 9JU
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