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This volume draws attention to ancient religious texts especially the so called non canonical texts by focusing on how they were used or functioned in Early Judaism and Early Christianity The contributors are biblical scholars who have chosen one or Jewish or Christian apocryphal or pseudepigraphical texts with the aim of describing their ancient functions in their emerging social settings These show the fluidity of the notion of scripture in the early centuries of the Church and in Judaism of late antiquity but they also show the value of examining the ancient religious texts that were not included in the Jewish or Christian biblical canons These chapters show that there is much that can be learned from examining and comparing these texts with canonical literature and evaluating them in their social context No ancient text was created in a vacuum and the non canonical writings aid in our interpretation not only of many canonical writings but also shed considerable light on the context of both early Judaism and early Christianity AUTHOR Lee Martin McDonaldLee Martin McDonald PhD University of Edinburgh before his retirement was professor of New Testament studies and president of Acadia Divinity College He is the author or coauthor of several books including The Biblical Canon and coeditor of The Canon Debate with James Sanders and The World of the New Testament with Joel Green He lives in Mesa Arizona.
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