Bible Review

See The Lost Books of the Bible and the Forgotten Books of Eden (Collins-World, 1977), especially the introduction by Frank Crane. The book actually contains a selection of well-known materials including the Apostolic Fathers, the Odes of Solomon and the Proto-Evangelium Jacobi.

The term “Christian Apocrypha” is gaining favor over the older term “New Testament Apocrypha” for a number of reasons; one is that most of the Christian Apocrypha were alive and strong in the church before there was a New Testament.

A second-century codex of Proto-James (Bodmer Papyrus 2) is in the Bodmer Library, Cologny, Switzerland.

The New Jerome Biblical Commentary (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1990), quoting the encyclical Dei Verbum.

See Ford Lewis Battles, “God Was Accommodating Himself to Human Capacity,” Interpretation 31 (1977), pp. 19–36.

Jon Levenson, Sinai and Zion: An Entry into the Jewish Bible (Minneapolis: Winston Press, 1985), p. 142.

Quoted by Roland Murphy, The Psalms, Job Proclamation Commentaries (Minneapolis: Fortress, 1977), pp. 12–13.

See the essay, written from a Christian standpoint, by Richard B. Hays, “Salvation by trust? Reading the Bible faithfully,” in The Christian Century (January 26, 1997), pp. 218–223.

Temba L.J. Mafico, “Judge, Judging,” in The Anchor Bible Dictionary, 6 vols. (New York: Doubleday, 1992), vol. 3, p. 1104.

James L. Crenshaw, Old Testament Story and Faith (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1992), p. 119.

For a full discussion of the scribes see Anthony J. Saldarini, Pharisees, Scribes and Sadducees in Palestinian Society (Wilmington: Glazier, 1988), pp. 159–166 and chap. 11.