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8 - The ‘apocryphal’ Old Testament

from Part II - The Hebrew Bible and Old Testaments

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 May 2013

James Carleton Paget
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
Joachim Schaper
Affiliation:
University of Aberdeen
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The literature of the period around the turn of the era is usually classified in four corpora that reflect the manner of its transmission: the Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha, Hellenistic Jewish writings and Dead Sea scrolls. The Hebrew and Aramaic writings found in the Dead Sea scrolls are undeniably Jewish, and can be dated with confidence to the period around the turn of the era. A classic example of the phenomenon of rewritten scriptures is provided by the book of Jubilees, a work that is preserved in full only in Ethiopic but whose antiquity is guaranteed by the discovery of Hebrew fragments among the Dead Sea scrolls. It is likely that the book of Jubilees was accepted as true revelation and therefore authoritative by some people, including the movement described in the Damascus Document from Qumran. Book of Jubilees and the Biblical Antiquities are extended paraphrases of biblical texts.
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Print publication year: 2013

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