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WEEK 1:
Monday, August 29:
Introduction to the Course
Wednesday, August
31: Introduction to the Intertestamental literature 1
JEWISH
PSEUDEPIGRAPHA
Required Reading:
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J. Charlesworth,
“Introduction for the General Reader,” in OTP 1.xx1-xxxiv
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G. Nickelsburg,
Jewish Literature between the Bible and the Mishnah, 1-7.
Background
Reading:
WEEK 2:
Monday, September
5: Labor Day; classes excused
Wednesday,
September 7: Introduction to the Intertestamental literature 2
CANON AND
AUTHORSHIP
Required Reading:
WEEK 3:
Monday, September
12: Introduction to the Intertestamental literature 3
SOCIAL AND
RELIGIOUS GROUPS
Required Reading:
Background
Reading:
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G. Boccaccini,
Roots of Rabbinic Judaism (Eerdmans, 2002).
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P. Hanson, The
Dawn of Apocalyptic (Fortress, 1979) 209-279.
Wednesday,
September 14: Introduction to the Intertestamental Literature 4
APOCALYPTICISM
Required Reading:
Background
Reading:
WEEK 4: THE ENOCH
TRADITION
Monday, September
19 and Wednesday, September 21
Primary Text:
The Book of the
Watchers (1 Enoch 1-36) (OTP, 1.13-29)
Secondary Text:
Qumran Enochic
Fragments (Vermes, 545-550).
Required Reading:
Background
Reading:
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M. Barker, The
Lost Prophet: The Book of Enoch and Its Influence on Christianity
(Nashville: Abingdon, 1988). H. Kvanvig, Roots of Apocalyptic:
the Mesopotamian Background of the Enoch Figure and of the Son of
Man (WMANT, 61; Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener Verlag, 1988).
“The Book of the Watchers” and “Possible Stages in the Literary
Development of 1 Enoch,” in: Nickelsburg, Jewish Literature
between the Bible and the Mishnah.
Suggested Passages
for Dense Readings:
1 Enoch 6-8
1 Enoch 14
WEEK 5: THE ENOCH
TRADITION (CONT.)
Monday, September
26 and Wednesday, September 28
Primary Text:
2 Enoch 1-22 (OTP,
1.102-141)
Secondary Text:
3 Enoch 1-16 (OTP,
1.255-268)
Required Reading:
Background
Reading:
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M. Himmelfarb,
“Revelation and Rapture: The Transformation of the Visionary in the
Ascent Apocalypses,” in: Mysteries and Revelations, 79-90;
A. Orlov, The Enoch-Metatron Tradition (TSAJ, 107;
Tübingen: Mohr-Siebeck, 2005) chapters 3 and 4; A. Segal, Two
Powers in Heaven: Early Rabbinic Reports About Christianity and
Gnosticism (SJLA, 25; Leiden: Brill, 1977); I. Gruenwaid,
Apocalyptic and Merkavah Mysticism (Leiden: Brill, 1980).
“2 Enoch,” in: Nickelsburg, Jewish Literature between the Bible
and the Mishnah.
Suggested Passages
for Dense Reading:
2 Enoch 22
3 Enoch 3
3 Enoch 13
3 Enoch 15
WEEK 6: THE NOAH
TRADITION
Monday, October 3
and Wednesday, October 5
Primary Texts:
1 Enoch 106 (OTP,
1.86-87)
The Genesis
Apocryphon (Vermes, 480-491)
1Q19 (Vermes,
554-555)
Secondary Texts:
2 Enoch 67-72
(OTP, 1.195-211)
Required Reading:
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D. Dimant, “Noah
in Early Jewish Literature,” in: Biblical Figures outside the
Bible (eds. M. Stone et al.; Harrisburg: Trinity Press
International, 1998) 123-150.
Background
Reading:
Suggested Passages
for Dense Readings:
1 Enoch 106
1Q19
2 Enoch 71
WEEK 7: THE MOSES
TRADITION
Monday, October 10
and Wednesday, October 12
Primary Text:
Exagoge of
Ezekiel the Tragedian
Secondary Texts:
Words of the
Luminaries (Vermes, 377-380)
Required Reading:
Background
Reading:
Suggested Passages
for Dense Readings:
Exagoge 68-80
Exagoge 83-85
WEEK 8: THE JACOB
TRADITION
Monday, October 17
and Wednesday, October 19
Primary Text:
Ladder of Jacob
(OTP, 2.407-411)
Secondary Texts:
Prayer of Joseph
(OTP, 2.713-714)
Required Reading:
Suggested Passages
for Dense Readings:
Ladder of Jacob
1
Ladder of Jacob
4
WEEK 9: THE BARUCH
TRADITION
Monday, October 24
and Wednesday, October 26
Primary Text:
3 Baruch (OTP,
1.662-679)
Secondary Text:
2 Baruch (OTP,
1.621-652)
Required Reading:
Background
Reading:
Suggested Passages
for Dense Readings:
3 Baruch 4
2 Baruch 36
WEEK 10: THE
ABRAHAM TRADITION
Monday, October 31
and Wednesday, November 2
Primary Text:
Apocalypse of
Abraham (OTP, 1.689-705)
Secondary Text:
Testament of
Abraham (OTP, 1.882-902)
Required Reading:
Background
Reading:
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G. Nickelsburg,
“Abraham the Convert: A Jewish Tradition and Its Use by the Apostle
Paul,” in: Biblical Figures outside the Bible (eds. M. Stone
et al.; Harrisburg: Trinity Press International, 1998) 151-175.
Suggested Passages
for Dense Readings:
Apocalypse of
Abraham 10
Apocalypse of
Abraham 13
Apocalypse of
Abraham 25
Testament of
Abraham 10-11 (recension B)
WEEK 11: THE EZRA
TRADITION
Monday, November 7
and Wednesday, November 9
Primary Text:
4 Ezra (OTP,
1.525-559)
Required Reading:
Background
Reading:
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T. Bergren, “Ezra
and Nehemiah Square off in the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha,” in: Biblical
Figures outside the Bible (eds. M. Stone et al.; Harrisburg:
Trinity Press International, 1998) 340-366. “4 Ezra” and
“Relationships between 4 Ezra and 2 Baruch,” in: Nickelsburg,
Jewish Literature between the Bible and the Mishnah.
Suggested Passages
for Dense Readings:
4 Ezra 13
WEEK 12: THE LEVI
TRADITION
Monday, November
14 and Wednesday, November 16
Primary Text:
Testament of Levi
(OTP, 1.788-795)
Required Reading:
-
“Aramaic Levi
Document” and “Testament of Levi,” in: Nickelsburg, Jewish
Literature between the Bible and the Mishnah. M. de Jonge and J.
Tromp, “Jacob's Son Levi in the Old Testament Pseudepigrapha and
Related Literature,” in: Biblical Figures outside the Bible
(eds. M. Stone et al.; Harrisburg: Trinity Press International,
1998) 203-236.
Background
Reading:
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M. Stone et al.,
Aramaic Levi Document: Edition, Translation, Commentary (Leiden:
Brill, 2004).
Suggested Passages
for Dense Readings:
Testament of Levi
2
Testament of Levi
8
WEEK 13: No
Classes
Monday, November
21 – Andrei Orlov in Philadelphia for AAR/SBL annual meeting – No Class
Wednesday,
November 23 – Thanksgiving Holiday
WEEK 14: THE
MELCHISEDEK TRADITION
Monday, November
28 and Wednesday, November 30
Primary Texts:
11Q13 (Vermes,
532-534)
The Testament of
Amram (Vermes, 570-573)
4Q280, 4Q286 (Vermes,
394-395)
Secondary Text:
2 Enoch 71-72
(OTP, 1.204-211)
Required Reading:
Background
Reading:
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F. Horton, The
Melchizedek Tradition: A Critical Examination of the Sources to the
Fifth Century A.D. and in the Epistle to the Hebrews (SNTSMS,
30; Cambridge/London/New York/Melbourne: Cambridge University,
1976). B. Pearson, “Melchizedek in Early Judaism,
Christianity, and Gnosticism,” in: Biblical Figures outside the
Bible (eds. M. Stone et al.; Harrisburg: Trinity Press
International, 1998) 176-202.
Suggested Passages
for Dense Readings:
11Q13
The Testament of
Amram (4Q544, fr. 2)
4Q280
4Q286
WEEK 15: THE SON
OF MAN TRADITION
Monday, December 5
and Wednesday, December 7
THE FINAL PAPER IS
DUE (December, 7)
Primary Text:
The Book of the
Parables (1 Enoch 37-71) (OTP, 29-50).
Secondary Texts:
The Book of Daniel 7
4 Ezra 13
NT passages about the
Son of Man
Required Reading:
Background
Reading:
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J. Collins, “The
Heavenly Representative: The ‘Son of Man’ in the Similitudes of
Enoch,” in: J. J. Collins and G. W. E. Nickelsburg (eds.), Ideal
Figures in Ancient Judaism: Profiles and Paradigms (SCS, 12;
Chico, CA: Scholars Press, 1980) 111-133.
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Suggested Passages
for Dense Readings:
1 Enoch 46
1 Enoch 71
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