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Ancient Texts for New Testament Studies Ancient Texts for New Testament Studies A Guide to the Background Literature CRAIG A. EVANS r^l HENDRICKSON P U B L I S H E RS © 2005 by Hendrickson Publishers, Inc. P. O. Box 3473 Peabody, Massachusetts 01961-3473 ISBN 1-56563-409-8 Ancient Texts for New Testament Studies: A Guide to the Background Literature is a major expansion and revision of an earlier work by Craig A. Evans, Noncanonical Writings and New Testament Intepretation (Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson, 1992). All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, re cording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. Printed in the United States of America First Printing — November 2005 Cover Art: The cover photograph is of a third-century Christian sarcophagus de picting the deceased reading his testament to his heirs. Museu i Necropolis Paleocristians, Tarragona, Spain. Photograph by James H. Charlesworth. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Evans, Craig A. Ancient texts for New Testament studies : a guide to the background literature / Craig A. Evans, p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 1-56563-409-8 (alk. paper) 1. Bible. N.T.—Study and teaching. 2. Literature, Ancient—History and criticism. 3. Intertextuality in the Bible—Study and teaching. 4. Literature, Ancient—Bibliography. I. Title. BS2530.E93 2005 225'.066—dc22 2005023156 For James A. Sanders Scholar, Mentor, Colleague Contents Preface xi Abbreviations xiii Introduction I An Overview of the Writings 1 The Value 3 The Method 6 General Bibliography 7 1. The Old Testament Apocrypha 9 Summaries 10 Themes 22 General Bibliography 24 2. The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha 26 Summaries 28 Themes 67 General Bibliography 73 3. The Dead Sea Scrolls 76 Contents 81 Discoveries in the Judaean Desert (DJDJ/DJD): 83 Identity of the Scrolls Community 86 Summaries of Qumran Documents 89 Summaries of Masada Documents 136 Summaries of Murabba^at Documents 138 Summaries of Nahal Hever Documents 138 Summaries of Nahal Se^elim (Wadi Seiyal) Documents 139 Summaries of Wadi Sdeir Documents 139 Summaries of Nahal Mishmar Documents 140 Summaries of Khirbet Mird Documents 140 ANCIENT TEXTS FOR NEW TESTAMENT STUDIES Summaries of Wadi Ed-Daliyeh Documents 141 Summaries of Cairo Genizah Documents 141 Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha 142 Pesharim: Qumran's Commentaries on Scripture 146 Targumim 149 Themes 149 General Bibliography 153 4. Versions of the Old Testament 155 Summaries 155 Themes 164 General Bibliography 166 5. Philo and Josephus 167 Philo 168 Philo and the New Testament 170 General Bibliography for Philo 172 Josephus 173 Josephus and the New Testament 175 Versions of Josephus's Writings 180 General Bibliography for Josephus 183 6. TheTargums 185 Summaries 187 Themes 202 General Bibliography 214 7. Rabbinic Literature 216 Summaries of Talmudic Literature 220 Summaries of Tannaic Midrashic Literature 231 Summaries of Amoraic Midrashic Literature 238 Later Midrashim 245 Medieval Commentators 245 Special Themes 246 General Bibliography 254 8. The New Testament Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha 256 Summaries of Selected Writings 257 Studies 263 General Bibliography 267 9. Early Church Fathers 268 Summaries 269 General Bibliography 276 10. Gnostic Writings 278 Coptic Gnostic Library: Text, Translation, and Commentary 280 Contents ix Studies 284 Mandaean Materials 285 General Bibliography 286 11. Other Writings 287 Greco-Roman Authors 287 Greco-Roman Authors on Jesus and Early Christianity 298 Corpus Hermeticum 300 Samaritan Writings 303 Papyri, Inscriptions, Coins, and Ostraca 306 General Bibliography 327 12. Examples of New Testament Exegesis 329 The Nazareth Sermon 329 The Parable of the Talents 330 The Parable of the Wicked Vineyard Tenants 333 "I Said,'You Are Gods'" 334 "The Word Is Near You" 335 Ascending and Descending with a Shout 337 Paul and the First Adam 338 APPENDIXES 1. Canons of Scripture that Include the Apocrypha 341 2. Quotations, Allusions, and Parallels to the New Testament 342 3. Parallels between New Testament Gospels and Pseudepigraphal Gospels 410 Sources and Bibliography 414 General Bibliography 416 Jesus' Parables and the Parables of the Rabbis 418 General Bibliography 422 Jesus and Jewish Miracle Stories 424 Honi ha-Me'^aggel 424 Abba Hilkiah, Grandson of Honi 425 Hanin ha-Nehba 425 Hanina ben Dosa 425 Eleazar the Exorcist 427 Phineas ben Yair 429 An Anonymous Hasid 429 Later Traditions about Famous Rabbis 429 General Bibliography 430 Messianic Claimants of the First and Second Centuries 431 Biblical and Historical Precedents 431
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