It’s a difficult thing to write a blog post on a book of the Pseudepigrapha. One’s head hurts trying to think through the complexities of it: there is what the Old Testament says, then there is the pseudepigraphal work that interprets said OT text, then there is the New Testament interaction with the OT text, […]
Books that Didn’t Make the Cut: 1 Enoch
January 7, 2016 By Rich Herbster
Filed Under: Bulletin Board, Rich's Blog Tagged With: 1 Enoch, Jude, Nephilim, Pseudepigrapha
Books that Didn’t Make the Cut: The Pseudepigrapha
December 10, 2015 By Rich Herbster
Marie Antoinette did not actually say, “Let them eat cake.” Nor did she say Qu’ils mangent de la brioche (that’s “let them eat cake” in French). It makes a great story though. Nor did Julius Caesar actually utter the famous Et tu, Brute? According to Plutarch he died in silence, while Suetonius has him asking […]
Filed Under: Bulletin Board, Rich's Blog Tagged With: Apocrypha, Canon, Pseudepigrapha, pseudepigraphy