ANCIENT TEXTS FOR NEW TESTAMENT STUDIES: A Guide to the Background Literature

Craig A. Evans

ISBN 10: 1565634098 / ISBN 13: 9781565634091

Published by Hendrickson Publishers, Peabody, MA, 2005

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: ANCIENT TEXTS FOR NEW TESTAMENT STUDIES: A Guide to the Background Literature
• Publisher: Hendrickson Publishers, Peabody, MA
• Publication Date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1565634098
• ISBN 13: 9781565634091
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st edition, 1st printing.
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Biblical Studies

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Synopsis

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. Evans’s dexterous survey—a thoroughly revised and significantly expanded edition of his Noncanonical Writings and New Testament Interpretation—amasses 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 edition: "Evans’s 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

About the Author

Craig A. Evans is Payzant Distinguished Professor of New Testament, Acadia Divinity College, Nova Scotia.