Ancient Wisdom Today » Pseudopigrapha http://maer.vidanovaphilly.org Ancient Wisdom Today: seeking to understand the past to make sense of the present Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:09:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 God’s Word in Many Other Words http://maer.vidanovaphilly.org/2009/01/02/gods-word-in-many-other-words/ http://maer.vidanovaphilly.org/2009/01/02/gods-word-in-many-other-words/#comments Fri, 02 Jan 2009 14:40:12 +0000 Maer http://maer.vidanovaphilly.org/?p=53 In my last post we saw a few things James Kugel had to say about the importance of the Sefarim Chitzonim (The Outside Books) for how later rabbis came to interpret the Bible. I have become more and more interested in the Apocrypha and Pseudopigrapha, and the little I have read has been incredibly helpful. A friend of mine who recently took a course at Gordon-Conwell in early Judaism had to read quite a bit of Second Temple writings, specially the ones from Qumran. He seems to be a bit disappointed because of the lack of coherence that he found in them. One of my projects for this year is to start reading more of these books and draw my own conclusions. I might even blog some thoughts about them.

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