The Oxford Handbook of the Apocrypha

Gerbern S. Oegema is Professor of Biblical Studies at McGill University. He studied Biblical Studies, Jewish Studies, and Religious Studies at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Freie Universität Berlin. He has been an Assistant Professor and Privatdozent at the Universität Tübingen and a Scholar in Residence at the Center for Theological Inquiry in Princeton. In his teaching and research he focuses on Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins. He is the author and co-editor of more than twenty books, as well as the co-editor of several book series.

Preface
Contributors

Part I: The Apocrypha in Judaism and Christianity

The Apocrypha: An Introduction

1. The Apocrypha in the Context of Early Judaism
2. The Apocrypha, the Septuagint, and other Greek Witnesses
3. A Canonical History of the Old Testament Apocryphay
4. The Apocrypha in the History of Christianity
5. The Protestant Reception of the Apocrypha

Part II: The Apocrypha

Historical and Legendary:

6. Apocrypha, Genre, and Historicity
7. 1 Esdras (Greek Ezra)
8. Baruch
9. Book of Judith
10. 1 Maccabees' Ethics, Etiquette, Political Theology, and Structure
11. 2 Maccabees
12. 3 Maccabees
13. 4 Maccabees

Apocalyptic:

14. The Apocrypha and Apocalypticism
15. 2 Esdras

Didactic:

16. Wisdom Literature of the Apocrypha and Related Compositions of the Second Temple Era
17. Sirach
18. Tobit
19 .The Wisdom of Solomon

Additions to Biblical Books:

20. The Additions to Daniel
21. The Additions of the Greek Book(s) of Esther
22. Epistle of Jeremiah
23. Prayer of Manasseh
24. Psalm 151-155

Part III: Major Themes in the Apocrypha

25. Jewish Religion in the Apocrypha: Between Biblical Precepts and Early Rabbinic Thought
26. Women and Gender in the Apocrypha
27. Theology and Ethics in the Apocrypha
28. Sexuality in the Apocrypha
29. Biblical Theology and the Apocrypha

Index