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
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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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)?
"If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.
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DMB said:
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.
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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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.
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Thanks Rosie, this gives me a couple of threads to follow to find what I want
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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MJ. Smith said:
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.
"If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.
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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-testamentchapter 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-interpretationBeale, 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
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