General context and methodology - The pseudepigrapha in Christianity - The pseudepigrapha and Christianity, revisited : setting the stage and framing some central questions - Christian transmission of Greek Jewish scriptures : a methodological probe - The weighing of the parts : pivots and pitfalls in the study of early Judaisms and their early Christian offspring - Combined review : The Old Testament pseudepigrapha, edited by James H. Charlesworth; The apocryphal Old Testament, edited by H.F.D. Sparks -- - Selected specific studies - Reassessing the "recensional problem" in Testament of Abraham - "Ezra" materials in Judaism and Christianity - Towards assessing the Latin text of "5 Ezra" : the Christian connection - Enoch and written authorities in Testaments of the 12 patriarchs - The Dialogue of Timothy and Aquila and its echoes of Judaism -- - Some related studies - Pliny on Essenes, Pliny on Jews - Philo on Seth, Philo on Enoch - Philo's treatment of the number seven in On creation - Philo and the Sabbath crisis : Alexandrian Jewish politics and the dating of Philo's works - Tiberius Julius Alexander and the crisis in Alexandria according to Josephus
These essays focus on interfaces between "scripturesque" Jewish materials and the worlds in which they were transmitted and/or perceived, especially in the period prior to (or apart from) the development of an exclusivistic canonical consciousness in some Jewish and Christian circles
