Visions and Violence in the Pseudepigrapha (Jewish and Christian Texts) Hardcover – December 16, 2021 by Craig A. Evans

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Author: Evans Craig A.

Package Dimensions: 47x254x788

Number Of Pages: 280

Release Date: 16-12-2021

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The nine essays that make up this volume provide cutting-edge studies of how sacred tradition is given new expression through vision and interpretation. The first four essays focus on the expansion of the sacred tradition primarily through vision. The evolution of the Solomon legacy, from wise king to healer and exorcist, is explored, as well as its contribution to the demonology of the desert fathers, especially as it concerns eroticism and sexual temptation. The varied receptions of the Revelation of the Magi and Shepherd of Hermas are also considered. The remaining five essays address important questions relating to polemic and violence in the Pseudepigrapha. How does the author of the Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum justify God’s alternating judgment and favor? How does Enoch’s Animal Apocalypse make use of the Exodus tradition in its expression of deliverance? On what basis can the author of Qumran’s War Scroll confidently predict Israel’s vindication? And finally, what accounts for the appearance of the tradition of Gehenna, in which the wicked will meet their fiery end?
About the Author
Craig A. Evans (Ph.D., Claremont)
is John Bisagno Distinguished professor of Christian Origins at Houston Baptist University, USA.

James H. Charlesworth is George L. Collord Professor of New Testament Language and Literature and Director and Editor of the Dead Sea Scrolls Project at Princeton Theological Seminary, USA.

Brian LePort is Religious Studies Instructor at TMI Episcopal, USA.

Paul T. Sloan is assistant professor of Theology at Houston Baptist University, USA.