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This volume examines the transmission of biblical pseudepigraphic literature and motifs from their largely Jewish cultural contexts in Palestine to developing gnostic milieux of Syria and Mesopotamia, particularly the one lying behind the birth and growth of Manichaeism. The author provides a philological, literary, and religio-historical analysis of each of the five pseudepigraphic citations contained in the Cologne Mani Codex, and offers hypotheses regarding the original provenance of each citation and the means by which these traditions have been adapted to their present context.

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'...an outstanding work which is fundamental to any close study...The author must be warmly congratulated on yet another signigicant contribution to both Jewish and Manichaean studies.' Samuel N.C. LieuVigiliae Christianae, 2002. '...an exemplary piece of scholarship...' James C. VanderKam, Journal of the American Oriental Society, 1999.

'.. .an exemplary piece of scholarship...'<br>James C. VanderKam, Journal of the American Oriental Society, 1999.<br>

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John C. Reeves, Ph.D. (1989), Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, is Blumenthal Professor of Judaic Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He is the author of Jewish Lore in Manichaean Cosmogony (HUC Press, 1992) and of diverse articles exploring intertextual relationships among varieties of Judaism, Christianity, gnostic communities, and Islam.

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