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Author: Lawrence M. Wills
Publisher: Yale University Press
Imprint: Yale University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 0.20cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.680kg
ISBN: 9780300248791
ISBN 10: 0300248792
Pages: 328
Publication Date: 10 August 2021
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
A work of first-rate scholarship that makes ancient Jewish apocrypha, ranging beyond the traditional Greek and Latin collections, accessible to the non-specialist audience. I cannot see teaching my Bible courses without it. -Benjamin G. Wright, Lehigh University In this comprehensive introduction, Wills shows that neither 'canon' nor 'apocrypha' is a simple, consistent idea. This should now be the standard introduction to the Apocrypha. -John J. Collins, Yale University Introductions to the Apocrypha used to be dull, dutiful little books. Not any more! In this engaging study Wills demonstrates the sophistication and significance of these compositions. In addition, he dismantles the prevailing Eurocentric construction of 'apocrypha' and embraces a long overdue global perspective. -Carol A. Newsom, Emory University A thorough, comprehensive, and insightful examination of texts, regarded as non-canonical for the Hebrew Bible, that were quite influential in later Jewish and Christian sources. Organizing these texts according to genre is a special feature of this study. -Gale A. Yee
2022 PROSE Award Finalist, Theology and Religious Studies category A work of first-rate scholarship that makes ancient Jewish apocrypha, ranging beyond the traditional Greek and Latin collections, accessible to the non-specialist audience. I cannot see teaching my Bible courses without it. -Benjamin G. Wright, Lehigh University In this comprehensive introduction, Wills shows that neither 'canon' nor 'apocrypha' is a simple, consistent idea. This should now be the standard introduction to the Apocrypha. -John J. Collins, Yale University Introductions to the Apocrypha used to be dull, dutiful little books. Not any more! In this engaging study Wills demonstrates the sophistication and significance of these compositions. In addition, he dismantles the prevailing Eurocentric construction of 'apocrypha' and embraces a long overdue global perspective. -Carol A. Newsom, Emory University A thorough, comprehensive, and insightful examination of texts, regarded as non-canonical for the Hebrew Bible, that were quite influential in later Jewish and Christian sources. Organizing these texts according to genre is a special feature of this study. -Gale A. Yee
Author Information
Lawrence M. Wills is visiting professor of Religious Studies and Judaic Studies at Brown University. His books include a commentary on Judith in the Hermeneia series, Not God’s People: Insiders and Outsiders in the Biblical World, and The Jewish Novel in the Ancient World.
