Wanted resources specifically on the use of parabiblical literature in Bible study.

Wanted resources specifically on the use of parabiblical literature in Bible study. By parabiblical literature I mean at least:

apocrypha
pseudepigrapha
Dead Sea Scrolls
Targumim
Midrashim
Early patristic writings
Early liturgical texts
Early canon law texts
Gnostic / Nag Hammadi
Philo
Josephus

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DMB

I reread this several times, and I'm not understanding.

Each, you list must have hundreds of resources? Anyway, a lot. Plus parabiblical? Is that possible (time-wise)?

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1272948#Comment_1272948

Is that possible (time-wise)?

No ... but if Logos considered it worthwhile to create an ancient literature section, someone on Bible methods, hermeneutics, exegesis must have written on how to use them/pretend that you have used them.

Rosie Perera

I think you could find some resources about how to do exegesis using each of those categories by searching Google for each one, stuff like "midrashic exegesis" which finds:

Childs, Brevard. "Psalm Titles and Midrashic Exegesis." Journal of Semitic Studies, Volume XVI, Issue 2 (Autumn 1971), pp. 137–150. Abstract.
Cohen, Yitshak. "Midrashic Exegesis and Biblical Interpretation in the Meshekh Hokhmah." The Seforim Blog, Dec 12, 2012.
"Forms of Midrashic Exegesis." Nazarene Judaism. (Non-academic website.)
Mandel, Paul. "Midrashic Exegesis and Its Precedents in the Dead Sea Scrolls." Qumran and Rabbinic Judaism, Vol. 8, No. 2 (2001), pp. 149-168. Abstract. Full PDF available if you have an Academia.edu account.

"Pseudepigraphic exegesis" doesn't find much, but "exegesis" "use of pseudepigrapha" does (I put quotes around even single words to tell Google that they must be in the results):

Henze, Matthias & Liv Ingeborg Lied, eds. The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha: Fifty Years of the Pseudepigrapha Section at the SBL. Society of Biblical Literature, 2019.
Stone, Michael E. "Why Study the Pseudepigrapha?" Biblical Archaeologist, Vol. 46, No. 4 (Dec 1983), pp. 235-243. Abstract. Full article available in Logos.

And so on. I don't have any knowledge of this subject area at all, just doing the sort of search I'm guessing you've already tried.

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1272955#Comment_1272955

Thanks Rosie, this gives me a couple of threads to follow to find what I want

DMB

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1272951#Comment_1272951

No ... but if Logos considered it worthwhile to create an ancient literature section, someone on Bible methods, hermeneutics, exegesis must have written on how to use them/pretend that you have used them.

Oh, ok. FL. The 'Bible-centric' threw me. The Bible being a church-device centuries after most of your list. Even the early Fathers were working off of selected prophesies, and oral guidance.

RHC

Not sure if this is what you're looking for, but these books give helpful background information.

Evans, Craig A. Ancient Texts for New Testament Studies: A Guide to the Background Literature. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2011. https://www.logos.com/product/39639/ancient-texts-for-new-testament-studies-a-guide-to-the-background-literature

commentators also look at use of the OT passages in some non-biblical texts:
Beale, G. K., and D. A. Carson. Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament. Grand Rapids, MI; Nottingham, UK: Baker Academic; Apollos, 2007. https://www.logos.com/product/5321/commentary-on-the-new-testament-use-of-the-old-testament

chapter 6 “The Relevance of Jewish Backgrounds for the Study of the Old Testament in the New” in
Beale, G. K. Handbook on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament: Exegesis and Interpretation. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2012. https://www.logos.com/product/37663/handbook-on-the-new-testament-use-of-the-old-testament-exegesis-and-interpretation

Beale, G. K. The Use of Daniel in Jewish Apocalyptic Literature and in the Revelation of St. John. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2010. https://www.logos.com/product/170969/the-use-of-daniel-in-jewish-apocalyptic-literature-and-in-the-revelation-of-st-john

Henze, Matthias, ed. A Companion to Biblical Interpretation in Early Judaism. Grand Rapids, MI; Cambridge, U.K.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2012. https://www.logos.com/product/49311/a-companion-to-biblical-interpretation-in-early-judaism

Sparks, Kenton L. Ancient Texts for the Study of the Hebrew Bible: A Guide to the Background Literature. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 2005. https://www.logos.com/product/39621/ancient-texts-for-the-study-of-the-hebrew-bible-a-guide-to-the-background-literature