Why study the extra-canonical literature?
The deutero-canonical status of the Apocrypha and the non-canonical status of the Pseudepigrapha and Qumran scrolls have hindered them from serving valuable functions for scholars of the Bible and communities of faith for which these texts are not (fully) canonical. In fact they reveal crucial devel...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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NTWSA
1994
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| In: |
Neotestamentica
Year: 1994, Volume: 28, Issue: 3, Pages: 181-204 |
| Further subjects: | B
Apocryphal books
B Theology B Greco-roman period B Vorster B Bible interpretation criticism B Isralite religion B Christianity B W.S B Eschatology |
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| Summary: | The deutero-canonical status of the Apocrypha and the non-canonical status of the Pseudepigrapha and Qumran scrolls have hindered them from serving valuable functions for scholars of the Bible and communities of faith for which these texts are not (fully) canonical. In fact they reveal crucial developments in Israelite religion and culture during the Greco-Roman period. Understanding these developments helps to eliminate stereotypes about 'intertestamental' Judaism and to develop an honest and more accurate historiography which clarifies the continuities and discontinuities between first-century Judaism and Christianity and enhances the foundations of contemporary Christian theology. |
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| ISSN: | 2518-4628 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Neotestamentica
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.10520/AJA2548356_402 |