University of St Andrews

Abstracts & Lectures

Cumulative Index of Texts Covered

Links with (L) lead to online lectures by Dr. Davila. The other links lead to summaries of student essays. Most of the lectures below are also available by e-mail. To have a lecture e-mailed to you, send the case-sensitive message given in parentheses after the link to majordomo@st-andrews.ac.uk.

• The Testament of Abraham
• The Apocalypse of Adam
• Ahiqar
• Aristeas to Philocrates (L) (get otpseud aristeas)
• Aristobulus
• 3 Baruch
• Cleodemus Malchus
• More Psalms of David (Hymnic and Liturgical Texts) (L) (get otpseud liturgy.5psdavid)
• Eldad and Modad (Quotation Fragments) (L) (get otpseud quot.frags.eldad)
• 3 Enoch
• Eupolemus
• Ezekiel the Tragedian, Exagoge
• Pseudo-Hecataeus (Quotation Fragments)(L) (get otpseud quotation.fragments)
• The Prayer of Jacob (Ancient Magic) (L) (get otpseud magic)
• Jannes and Jambres
• The Testament of Job
• Joseph and Aseneth
• Jubilees (L1) (get otpseud jubilees.1)
• Jubilees (L2) (get otpseud jubilees.2)
• 3 Maccabees (Wisdom Literature)(L) (get otpseud wisdom.3maccabees)
• 4 Maccabees
• The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs (L2) (get otpseud testaments12p.1)
• Pseudo Philo (Liber Antiquitarum Biblicarum)
• The Sentences of Pseudo-Phocylides
• The Apocalypse of Sedrach (Apocalyptic) (L) (get otpseud apocalyptic.apocsedrach)
• The Sibylline Oracles, books 3-5
• The Odes of Solomon
• The Testament of Solomon
• The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs (L1) (get otpseud testaments12p.1)
• The Apocalypse of Zephaniah

THEMATIC GUEST LECTURES ONLINE

• Rochelle I. Altman, “Writing Systems and Manuscripts,” (not available by e-mail, because of the graphics)
• Richard Bauckham, The New Testament Apocrypha (get otpseud ntapocrypha)
• James Harding and Loveday Alexander, “Dating the Testament of Solomon” (get otpseud date_tsolomon)
• John Reeves, “Reflections on Jewish Apocryphal and Pseudepigraphical Survivals in Medieval Near Eastern Religious Traditions,” (get otpseud survivals)
• James VanderKam, “The Enoch Literature,” (get otpseud enoch)

The Divine Mediator Figures Web Page and Dead Sea Scrolls Web Page also contain much material relevant to the study of the Old Testament Pseudepigrapha.

Pages in this section

• Introduction to the Old Testament Pseudepigrapha
• The Odes of Solmon
• THE OLD TESTAMENT PSEUDEPIGRAPHA HONOURS MODULE DI3216 (/5214) UNIVERSITY OF ST. ANDREWS CUMULATIVE INDEX OF OTPSEUD TEXTS COVERED IN DI3216 (/5214) BY NAME OF FIRST CHARACTER IN TITLE (OR BY TITLE)
• The Psalms of Solomon
• The Pseudepigraph in the Irish Church
• Pseudo-Phil: Studies of Hebraic Heroines
• Quotation Fragments (Pseudo-Hecataeus)
• THE RECHABITES IN PATRISTIC AND PARABIBLICAL LITERATURE
• Ritual in the Jewish Pseudepigrapha
• Ritual in the Old Testament Apocrypha
• The Sentences of Pseudo-Phocylides
• The Sibylline Oracles (Books 3-5)
• The Similitudes of Enoch
• The Slavonic Pseudepigraph: An Introduction
• IS THE STORY OF ZOSIMUS REALLY A JEWISH COMPOSITION?
• REFLECTIONS ON JEWISH APOCRYPHAL AND PSEUDEPIGRAPHICAL SURVIVALS IN MEDIEVAL NEAR EASTERN RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS
• Testament of Abraham
• The Testament of Adam
• Testament of Job
• The Testament of Moses
• The Testament of Solomon
• A Difficult Case: The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs (1)
• The Life of Adam & Eve / Apocalypse of Moses
• TRANSLATED FROM HEBREW OR ARAMAIC?
• THE ODES OF ISAIAH: A NEWLY DISCOVERED SYRIAC
• Hymnic and Liturgical Texts (More Psalms of David)
• Methodological Reflections on the Old Testament Pseudepigrapha
• Methodological Reflections on the OT Pseudepigrapha
• Methodological Issues for Studying the OT Pseudepigrapha (1997)
• ANCIENT MAGIC (THE PRAYER OF JACOB)
• The Ladder of Jacob
• A Best Case Scenario: The Book of Jubilees (1)
• Josepth and Aseneth
• Jewish Pseudepigrapha & Christian Apocarypha
• Jannes and Jambres
• Introduction to the Old Testament Pseudepigrapha
• Ezekiel the Tragedian’s Exagoge
• Eupolemus and Pseudo-Eupolemus
• The Epistle of Enoch (1 Enoch 91-108)
• ENTER THE BIBLIOBLOGGERS
• A Worst-Case Scenario (Eldad and Modad)
• DIALECTOLOGY IN BIBLICAL HEBREW: A NORTH ISRAELITE DIALECT? SYNCHRONIC AND DIACHRONIC CONSIDERATIONS
• Did Christians Write Old Testament Pseudepigraph That Appear to be Jewish?
• The Book of the Watchers (1 Enoch 1-36)
• Summary of the Book of Giants
• ASTROLOGY AND THE DESCENDERS TO THE CHARIOT
• Aristobulus and Cleodemus Malchus
• Aristeas to Philocrates
• The Apocryphon of Ezekiel / 4QPseudo-Ezekiel
• The Apocalypse of Zephaniah
• The Apocalypse of Sedrach
• The Coptic Apocalypse of Elijah
• THE APOCALYPSE OF DANIEL: A NEWLY DISCOVERED SYRIAC PSEUDEPIGRAPHON – A THOUGHT EXPERIMENT
• Apocalypse of Adam
• Apocalypse of Abraham
• The Animal Apocalypse (1 Enoch 83-90)
• Ancient Magic (The Prayer of Jacob)
• Ahiqar
• The Book of 6 Ezra (2 Esdras 15-16)
• 5 Ezra: Eclectic Translation of the Latin Based on the Spanish Recension
• The Book of 5 Ezra
• 4 Maccabees
• 4 Ezra
• Sapiential Literature (3 Maccabees)
• 3 Enoch and the Similitudes of Enoch
• 3 (Greek Apocalypse of) Baruch
• Enoch and Salvation
• An Introduction to 2 Enoch
• 2 Baruch
• Introduction to DI3216: The Old Tesetament Pseudepigrapha (1999)
• Introductory Thoughts on the OT Pseudepigrapha (1997)
• Introduction to DI3216: The OT Pseudepigraph (1997)
• Introduction to DI3216: The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha