Jim, You might add to your list A History of the Literature of Adam and Eve by Michael E. Stone, published by Scholars Press in 1992. What emerges from that is that the Georgian and Armenian versions are more important for reconstructing the original forms of this literature than one would guess from Charles and others.
For a review on IOUDAIOS Review, see ftp://ftp.lehigh.edu/pub/listserv/ioudaios-review/2.1992/stone.levison.0 25 For my review of the Anderson and Stone, Synopsis of the Life of Adam and Eve, where the Georgian, Armenian, and Slavonic versions are given equal treatment with the Latin and Greek, see ftp://ftp.lehigh.edu/pub/listserv/ioudaios-review/1.2002/anderson.suter. 001 (in each case, watch the wrap -- if the whole URL doesn't show up on one line, you may need to do some cutting and pasting into your browser's location window). David -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Davila Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2005 8:47 AM To: g-megillot@McMaster.ca Subject: Re: [Megillot] reception history of Pseudepigrapha? 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? > > shavua tov > Soren, Copenhagen > > _______________________________________________ > g-Megillot mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.McMaster.CA/mailman/listinfo/g-megillot > > Dr. Jim Davila Lecturer in Early Jewish Studies St. Mary's College University of St. Andrews St. Andrews, Fife, KY16 9JU United Kingdom [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/academic/divinity/jrd4.html http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ g-Megillot mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.McMaster.CA/mailman/listinfo/g-megillot _______________________________________________ g-Megillot mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.McMaster.CA/mailman/listinfo/g-megillot
