Jewish and Christian Scriptures : The Function of 'Canonical' and 'Non-Canonical' Religious Texts (Hardcover)

Preface: James H. Charlesworth and Lee Martin McDonald Abbreviations Introduction: 'What's Up Now? Renewal of an Important Investigation' James A. Sanders 1. What Do We Mean by Canon? Some Modern and Ancient Questions Lee Martin McDonald Response: Loren Johns 2. People of the Book and the Book of the People James H. Charlesworth Response: Andrei Orlov 3. Citation Formulae as Indices to Canonicity in Early Jewish and Early Christian Literature Kenneth Penner Response: Lee Martin McDonald 4. Rewriting the Sacred: Some Problems of Textual Authority in Light of the Rewritten Scriptures from Qumran Casey Elledge Response: Brent Strawn 5. Jude's Citation of 1 Enoch Jeremy Hultin Response: Leslie Walck 6. The Pseudepigrapha and the New Testament: The Case of the Acts of the Apostles Craig A. Evans Response: Brian D. Rhea 7. Apocrypha and Liturgy in the Fourth Century: The Case of the 'Six Books' Dormition Apocryphon Stephen J. Shoemaker Response: George Zervos 8. The Transfiguration Remembered, Reinterpreted, and Reenacted in Acts of Peter 20-21 Simon S. Lee Response: Henry Rietz Selected Bibliography: Canonical Criticism and the Use of Scriptures in Early Judaism and Early Christianity Indexes