Deuterocanonical Additions of the Old Testament Books (Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Studies 5), Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2010. viii+180 p. (original) (raw)

A Synopsis of the Deuterocanonical Books

Our paper is based on the vast amount of Jewish literature written in the period between the two testaments mainly from the 2nd and 1st centuries BC. The particular books are called by different names such as the second canon, deuterocanonical, Apocrypha etc. by many Christian and non- Christian faiths but in this paper we shall discuss and explain them from the perspective of the Catholic Church. We shall look at their position or parts other in the LXX and in the Catholic Bible; time of composition and also to find out who their authors were. We shall then obviously present a short description of its content and the theological message. We shall then look at how they are used in the liturgical calendar of the Roman Catholic Church and their place in the teaching authority of the church as decreed by the Council of Trent.

Deuterocanonical Books in Latin Tradition, in Houghton, ed., Oxford Handbook of the Latin Bible (2023)

2023

A set of biblical books not considered canonical by all Christians has often found a place in Latin biblical manuscripts and in some cases has received canonical sanction. This essay considers not only the so-called Roman Catholic deuterocanonical books (Tobit, Judith, Wisdom of Solomon, Ecclesiasticus, Baruch, 1-2 Maccabees, Additions to Daniel, Additions to Esther) but also other writings important in the Latin biblical tradition: 3-4 Ezra, the Prayer of Manasseh, Psalm 151, Canticles, Laodiceans, 3 Corinthians, and the Gospel of Nicodemus. The bulk of the essay surveys each of these books in terms of its origins in Latin, the manuscript sources, and the relevant editions. There is also some discussion of the canonical history of these works.

201*. “The Septuagint and the Deuteronomists,” Text-Criticism and Beyond: In Memoriam of Isac Leo Seeligmann, Text 23 (2007): 151–79. Revised version: Emanuel Tov, Hebrew Bible, Greek Bible, and Qumran (2008), 398–417

The hypothesis that some of the books of Hebrew Scripture were reworked by (a) Deuteronomistic (Dtr) reviser(s) is well established and has been accepted, with several variations, by virtually all critical Bible scholars. Thus, some scholars assume that earlier forms of Joshua-2 Kings and Jeremiah 1 were revised in the spirit of Deuteronomy, while others claim that the "Deuteronomists" themselves edited the books. 2 This reworking involved the reformulating and re-editing of an earlier text in light of the ideas and wording of Deuteronomy. This altering of a biblical book on the basis of Deuteronomy differs from a biblical author's intimate knowledge of that book, as has been claimed, for example, for Jeremiah's close connection to Deuteronomy. In any event, it should be noted that all details relating to the Dtr hypothesis are contested (number of revisers; date of the revision(s); methods used; books revised; vocabulary of Dtr; ideology of the reworking; relation to Deuteronomy, etc.). 3 The scholarly assumption of a Dtr reworking in Joshua-2 Kings * Thanks are due to Mindy Anderson Jeppesen for her careful reading of the manuscript and her helpful remarks. 1 The hypotheses relating to the existence of Dtr elements in additional books are not well founded. Furthermore, they are also irrelevant to the present investigation, since in these cases the evidence is limited to MT and is not challenged by other textual witnesses. A Dtr reworking of Amos is often mentioned in the literature; see, for example, R. Smend, Die Entstehung des Alten Testaments (Theologische Wissenschaft 1; Stuttgart/Berlin/ Cologne/Mainz: Kohlhammer, 1978) 175. This assumption was refuted by S. M. Paul, "A Literary Reinvestigation of the Authenticity of the Oracles against the Nations of Amos," in De la Tôrah au Messie: Études d'exégèse et d'hermémeutique bibliques offertes à Henri Cazelles (ed. J. Doré et al.; Paris: Desclée, 1981) 189-204 = idem, Divrei Shalom, Collected Studies of Shalom M. Paul on the Bible and the Ancient Near East 1967-2005 (Leiden/Boston: E. J. Brill, 2005) 417-37. A Dtr reworking of Zechariah was suggested by R. F. Person, Second Zechariah and the Deuteronomic School (JSOTSup 167; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1993). 2 See n. 71 relating to Jeremiah. 3 For some of the latest literature, see M. A. O'Brien, The Deuteronomistic History

Deuteronomy in the Pentateuch, Hexateuch, and the Deuteronomistic History

2012

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