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Title: Stories Between the Testaments: Meeting of the People of the Apocrapha by Marjorie L. Kimbrough ISBN: 0-687-08955-7 Publisher: Abingdon Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (1 review)
Rating: 3
Summary: Not scholarly but rather a student paraphrase
Comment: A look at the bibliography reveals the research that went into this book. The books are The Jerome Biblical Commentary, Old Testament Story and Faith, Introducing the Old Testament, The World's Religions, Introduction to the Old Testament, The Oxford Companion to the Bible, the NRSV, Exploring Religion, The Women's Bible Commentary, and The New Unger's Bible Handbook. These are all popular treatments, and none of them are devoted to discussing the Apocrypha. Nowhere to be found are the important introductions to the Apocrypha by Bruce Manning Metzger or Daniel J. Harrington, nor the commentaries in the Anchor Bible series, let alone any journal articles. The author has not put in the work necessary for a scholarly treatment of the material.
And that's fine--if you don't care for an introduction that is filled with arguments and technical details. This book is not an introduction but a survey, a paraphrase of the books in the Apocrypha for the general reader (and specifically for a class mentioned in the dedication). There is less than a paragraph in each chapter for the higher criticism concerning the text. This book rather touches upon the highlights of the story. Get this book if what you want is an epitome with some comments from personal reflection. People like me would get more enjoyment from reading the texts themselves and wrestling with a footnote-filled monograph. If that describes you as well, consider the impressive and up-to-date Introducing the Apocrypha by David A. deSilva.
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Title: The Lost Books of the Bible: Being All the Gospels, Epistles and Other Pieces Now Extant Attributed in the First Four Centuries to Jesus Christ, His by Bible ISBN: 0517277956 Publisher: Testament Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1979 List Price(USD): $9.99 |
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Title: Introduction to the Apocrypha by Bruce M. Metzger ISBN: 0195023404 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1957 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Invitation to the Apocrypha by Daniel J. Harrington ISBN: 0802846335 Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 August, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Introducing the Apocrypha: Message, Context, and Significance by David Arthur Desilva, James H. Charlwsworth ISBN: 080102319X Publisher: Baker Academic Pub. Date: 01 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $32.99 |
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Title: The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English by Geza Vermes ISBN: 0140278079 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 1998 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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