apocrypha

"Because there are many ciphers which I would read as easily as I do the apocrypha of the agony column: such crude devices amuse the intelligence without fatiguing it.

And on some mornings, when he read in the Apocrypha, of which he was very fond, the son of Sirach's keen-edged words would bring a delighted smile, though he also enjoyed the freedom of occasionally differing from an Apocryphal writer.

He was a quick fellow, and when hot from play, would toss himself in a corner, and in five minutes be deep in any sort of book that he could lay his hands on: if it were Rasselas or Gulliver, so much the better, but Bailey's Dictionary would do, or the Bible with the Apocrypha in it.

The definition he presents will tacitly affect various approaches to the New Testament Apocrypha in the course of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, especially in one quintessential feature he describes concerning the apocryphal writings: the fluidity of the corpus.

The essays cover the canon of scripture in the Orthodox Church, the Prayer of Manasses: Orthodox tradition and modern studies in dialogue, the Testament of Solomon and other pseudepigraphical material in Ahkam Sulayman (Judgment of Solomon), the Book of Wisdom of Solomon in the Armenian Church literature and liturgy, The New Testament Romanian amulet text Visul Maicii Domnului (The Dream of the Mother of the Lord), banning from the lectionary: excluding the Apocalypse of John from the Orthodox New Testament canon, and New Testament Apocrypha and the Armenian version of the Bible.

While some printings of the Bible in the 17th century did not include the Apocrypha, still many Bibles did include these books.

Whether the characters include the woman/wife in Ephesians and Proverbs, Rebekah in Genesis, Abigail in 1 Samuel, Suzanna and Judith in the Apocrypha, and so forth, they all exemplify female behavioral and cultural models for whom "becoming male" or "exerceant oeuvres viriles" ("exercising manly tasks") means, in the true Christian sense of being and living, "to cultivate a religious identity" and to participate in a process "that will ultimately lead to eschatological fulfillment."(20)

The first volume of The Biblical World briefly describes the OT, the Apocrypha, and the NT.

The standard German edition of the New Testament Apocrypha, the Neutestamentliche Apokryphen, originally edited by E.

He considers Jewish perspectives in Deuteronomy 30: God and Israel in the drama of restoration, heart transformation in the prophets Jeremiah and Ezekiel, the Septuagint, the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Apocrypha and Pseudepigraphy, and Philo.

The primary bibliography covers books and pamphlets, contributions to books and periodicals, works he edited, and apocrypha and miscellany including lost or destroyed works.

Other sources include the Elephantine papyri, the Dead Sea Scrolls, several works in the Apocrypha, and, most important, the works of Josephus.