num_pages: 539
description: One of the daunting challenges facing the New Testament interpreter is achieving familiarity with the immense corpus of Greco-Roman Jewish and Pagan primary source materials. From the Paraphrase of Shem to Pesiqta Rabbati scholars and students alike must have a fundamental understanding of these documents content provenance and place in NT interpretation. But achieving even an elementary facility with this literature often requires years of experience or a photographic memory. Evanss dexterous surveya thoroughly revised and significantly expanded edition of his Noncanonical Writings and New Testament Interpretationamasses the requisite details of date language text translation and general bibliography. Evans also evaluates the materials relevance for interpreting the NT. The vast range of literature examined includes the Old Testament apocrypha the Old Testament pseudepigrapha the Dead Sea Scrolls assorted ancient translations of the Old Testament and the Targum paraphrases Philo and Josephus Rabbinic texts the New Testament pseudepigrapha the early church fathers various gnostic writings and more. Six appendixes including a list of quotations allusions and parallels to the NT and a comparison of Jesus parables with those of the rabbis will further save the interpreter precious time. Praise for the first Evanss introduction is more than a map to terra incognita it is a helpful companion for all who study Judaism and Christianity before the establishment of the Holy Roman Empire. James H. Charlesworth George L. Collord Professor of New Testament Language and Literature Princeton Theological Seminary
language: English
title: Ancient Texts For New Testament Studies: A Guide To The Background Literature
publisher: Hendrickson Pub