Pseudepigrapha

... uh, Jeremiah.

Uh, then there's several in the Pseudepigrapha.

But there's this, there's these, there are these common themes, and he, he outlines eight of them, which I think are really nice.

Do you want me to go through-

The more you read the scriptures, you know, like I said before, you know, the topography is completely different from what they of what we were told is the real Holy Land.

So the other apocryphal books, which I also read before I got the Sefer, was the Pseudepigraphas, Volume 1, Volume 2.

They're pretty much the same thing that's the Sefer.

They got the Book of Enoch.

in order to get any spotlight for a book to get spotlight, it's going to have to have some authoritative nature behind it, you know? And so it might be that one of the reasons why we've got this Enochic figure here, uh, and it's attributed, uh, attributed to him is so that there is, um, some novelty and some authority as well that's put behind it.

Uh, And so Carson has a book called Pseudonymity and Pseudepigraphy, and he kind of works through the difference between the literary forgery and what's actually happening with the Book of Enoch as a category of pseudepigraphical writing that doesn't demand for us to throw it out because we would presume that it's a literary forgery.

That's not the function of the work as it's being written in the second temple period.

So it wasn't in the second tonal period when it comes out.

Sorry, the Dead Sea Scrolls are not in there.

Sorry, the Pseudepigrapha is not in there.

Sorry.

Well, I'm not sorry.

So, you know, my experiences have definitely shaped what I do, but it's also my academic training.

Like, I studied Semitic philology and the Pseudepigrapha, which are the collection of works written in between the Hebrew Bible and the Christian New Testament.

It's filled with a lot of anachronisms.

There's a lot of magic, a, a much more belief in angels and demons, and it's all much more explicitly spelled out.

It's referred to as Apocrypha.

Now the Pseudepigrapha is a much broader collection of these ancient writings falsely attributed to, uh, uh, important biblical figures.

If you remember the recent debate that happened between, um, uh, Wes Huff and, uh, what was that guy's name? Uh, h- it made Wes Huff pr- kind of famous.

Um, anyway, it'll, it'll come to me.

One late antique work shows an important shift from vague danger to detailed supernatural interrogation.

The Testament of Solomon is attributed to King Solomon, but historians treat it as pseudepigraphical, a text written long after the period traditionally associated with the biblical king.

Its exact dating and textual development remain subjects of scholarly discussion.

What matters for this history is its form.

It tells of Adam and Eve's first dwelling, the Cave of Treasures; their trials and temptations; Satan's many apparitions to them; the birth of Cain, Abel, and their twin sisters; and Cain's love for his beautiful twin sister, Luluwa, whom Adam and Eve wish to join to Abel.

This book is considered by many scholars to be part of the Pseudepigrapha.

The Pseudepigrapha is a collection of historical biblical works that are considered to be fiction.

Because of that stigma, this book was not included in the compilation of the Holy Bible.

This book is a written history of what happened in the days of Adam and Eve after they were cast out of the Garden.

Let's talk about what they're actually claiming to do and to know, and let's talk about how that fits with the Christian world that exists around them.

Um, because in some ways, I suspect that I've kind of been, you know, selling these two days between the New Testament and now Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha and Deuterocanon day, I suspect I've kind of been selling them backwards.

Um, like, it's a little weird to be talking about textual criticism when you're talking about the New Testament that was accepted and canonized, and it's a little weird to talk about theology when you're talking about all the stuff that very much was not accepted and canonized.

But I think in this class, reversing them is the proper move.