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The Jewish World around the New Testament: Collected Essays I is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this volume, Bauckham presents 24 studies that were originally released between 1976 and 2008. Dealing with many aspects of early Judaic literature and thought, this volume contains discussion on the schism between early Judaism and early Christianity and the importance of early Judaic literature for the study of the New Testament. Richard Bauckham shows that New Testament texts can only be...

Pseudepigraphal letters are not, of course, distinguishable in form from authentic letters, of which they are fictional imitations. The diagram does not include type CP, which could in theory exist, but would be a rather sophisticated fiction, involving two levels of fiction, and is therefore unlikely. In fact, as will become clear, type AP6 could well be regarded in another sense as the pseudepigraphal equivalent of type C. All letters, including pseudepigraphal letters, must specify both sender(s)
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