Old Testament Pseudepigrapha: More Noncanonical Scriptures. Volume 1

This volume, as the title makes clear, focuses on Old Testament pseudepigrapha, OT being an admittedly unsatisfactory term, but one which refers to the subject matter of the texts, rather than the date of composition, or the religious faith of the authors, who may well have been Christian as well as Jewish. Of course, the first Christians were Jews, and the early church was one of several Jewish traditions, so this distinction did not become clear until much later – when, as Bauckham and Davila state in their Introduction, “Old Testament pseudepigrapha were more valued by Christians at some times...