Sacra scriptura
Subtitle: how "non-canonical" texts functioned in early Judaism and early Christianity
By: edited by James H. Charlesworth and Lee Martin McDonald with Blake A. Jurgens
Series: Jewish and Christian texts in contexts and related studies -- 20; Jewish and Christian texts in contexts and related studies -- v. 20.
Publisher: Bloomsbury T & T Clark
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London, UK; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 197
ISBN-13: 9780567148872; 9780567296689; 9780567664235
Subjects: Primitive and early church; Criticism, interpretation; Church history; Judentum; Apocryphes; Église; Apokryphen; Apocryphal books; Critique et exégèse; Frühchristentum
Work titles: Sacra scriptura (Charlesworth and McDonald)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Writings labeled "apocrypha" in Latin patristic sources  -- Edmon L. Gallagher; title: Did the Midrash of Shemihazai and Azael use the Book of Giants?  -- Ken M. Penner; title: Negotiating the boundaries of tradition: the rehabilitation of the Book of Ben Sira (Sirach) in B. Sanhedrin 100B  -- Teresa Ann Ellis; title: Prologue of Sirach (Ben Sira) and the question of canon  -- Francis Borchardt; title: The function of ethics in the non-canonical Jewish writings  -- Gerbern S. Oegema; title: The Odes of Solomon: their relation to scripture and the canon in early Christianity  -- James Hamilton Charlesworth; title: The Odes of Solomon in ancient Christianity: reflections on scripture and canon  -- Lee Martin McDonald; title: Origen's use of the Gospel of Thomas  -- Stephen C. Carlson; title: The Acts of Thomas as sacred text  -- Jonathan K. Henry; title: Questions and answers in the Protevangelium of James and the Gospel of Peter -- Daniel Lynwood Smith.