Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha

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A soul’s second chance: The testament of Abraham and traditions of praying for the dead.
M. John-Patrick O’Connor.
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In ancient Jewish and Christian intercessory traditions, one emerging trend insists that death is final with no allotment for postmortem mercy of any kind. By late antiquity, speculations about the in-between status of souls proliferated, eventually ...

May 23, 2026 doi: 10.1177/09518207261443710 open full text
Divine glory in the image of God: Anthropology of divine embodiment in the Ascension of Isaiah.
Robert G. Hall.
Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha. April 30, 2026

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The Ascension of Isaiah accords well with Sommer’s or Bunta’s fluidity models of divine embodiment. It envisions an alternate metaphysics, a universe full of divine glory “embodied” or “moving” not only in the Great Glory but also in seven glories suited ...

April 30, 2026 doi: 10.1177/09518207261437222 open full text
The Christology of the Odes of Solomon: Wisdom, word, and the human Messiah.
Thomas E. Gaston.
Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha. April 27, 2026

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The Odes of Solomon, an early Christian collection of hymns preserved largely in Syriac, constitute an important yet underutilized witness to Christological reflection at the turn of the first and second centuries. This article re-examines the Christology ...

April 27, 2026 doi: 10.1177/09518207261441762 open full text
The Letter of Mordecai to Alexander the Great: An English Translation.
Anathea Portier-Young, Simon Bellmann.
Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha. March 28, 2026

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TheLetter of Mordecai to Alexander the Greatis a philosophical and theological treatise in the form of a pseudepigraphic letter preserved in manuscripts of the Latin J3recension of theAlexander Romancebeginning in the fourteenth century CE and in ...

March 28, 2026 doi: 10.1177/09518207261424761 open full text
Early Armenian exegesis of Noah in the tenth-century manuscript Matenadaran M2679.
Michael E Stone.
Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha. March 26, 2026

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This article examines an early Armenian parabiblical text concerning Noah preserved in manuscript M2679 (981 CE), the oldest surviving paper manuscript in Armenian. The text provides a distinctive interpretation of the biblical name-midrash on Noah found ...

March 26, 2026 doi: 10.1177/09518207261423846 open full text
The influence of ancient Jewish scribal practices on Codex Panopolitanus (the Akhmim Fragment): Links between the Book of the Watchers in 1 Enoch, the Gospel of Peter and the Apocalypse of Peter.
Helen R Jacobus.
Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha. March 17, 2026

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The Enoch and Petrine compositions – the Gospel of Peter and the Apocalypse of Peter – are partly thematically linked in Codex Panopolitanus (also known as the Akhmim Fragment), from Upper Egypt. The so-called ‘duplicate’ extract from the Greek Book of ...

March 17, 2026 doi: 10.1177/09518207261422280 open full text
When ancient Jewish literature becomes American scripture: The case of Esther in the United States.
Jill Hicks-Keeton.
Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha. February 07, 2026

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The biblical story of Queen Esther rescuing ancient Persia’s Jewish population from annihilation has proven to be a pliable resource in competitions over power and place in contexts beyond the book’s murky origins in Jewish antiquity. In fact, Esther has ...

February 07, 2026 doi: 10.1177/09518207251407327 open full text
The culpability of women in the Asael strand of 1 Enoch 6–11 and the redaction history of Genesis 4.
Mark Leuchter.
Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha. January 22, 2026

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One of the major sources in 1 Enoch 6–11, a narrative strand focusing on the rebellious angel Asael, emphasizes the culpability of human women in the transmission of illicit knowledge. While scholars have long noted that this narrative strand develops ...

January 22, 2026 doi: 10.1177/09518207251407262 open full text
From divided loves to sacred desire: Lady Wisdom’s reconciliation in the Wisdom of Solomon.
Jiani SunBiblical Graduate School of Theology, Singapore.
Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha. October 21, 2025

Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha, Volume 35, Issue 3, Page 244-260, March 2026.
Solomon’s legacy has been shaped by two major loves in his life: his love for wisdom (1 Kgs 3:1–15) and his love for women (1 Kgs 11:1–9; cf. Song of Songs). The dual passions have generated polarizing interpretations of his character in the history of ...

October 21, 2025 doi: 10.1177/09518207251371629 open full text
Judith and Jehu: Tyrannies, beheadings, and reforms in 2 Kings 9–10 and Judith.
Joshua Joel Spoelstra.
Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha. September 09, 2025

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The beheading of Holofernes is the most iconic scene inJudith. Since the author ofJudithplays loose-and-free with history which renders an ahistorical situation and saturates the novella with inner-biblical echo and allusion, this investigation seeks ...

September 09, 2025 doi: 10.1177/09518207251363637 open full text
The Angelomorphic Spirit of Wisdom in the Wisdom of Solomon.
Simon B. Johansson.
Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha. August 23, 2025

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In the Wisdom of Solomon, a Jewish writing from the first-century BCE, the “spirit of wisdom” and the personified Wisdom, two concepts well known from the Hebrew Bible, are brought together and developed, partly by the integration of Greek philosophy. ...

August 23, 2025 doi: 10.1177/09518207251358136 open full text
Animals and demons: Nonhuman beings in the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs.
Tom de BruinRadboud University, The Netherlands.
Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha. May 31, 2025

Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha, Volume 35, Issue 3, Page 231-243, March 2026.
The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, usually included in collections of Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, contains descriptions of nonhuman animals in eight of its twelve testaments. This article is the first to examine these descriptions of nonhumans. In ...

May 31, 2025 doi: 10.1177/09518207251339938 open full text
Animals and demons: Nonhuman beings in the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs.
Tom de BruinRadboud University, The Netherlands.
Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha. May 31, 2025

Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha, Volume 35, Issue 3, Page 231-243, March 2026.
The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, usually included in collections of Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, contains descriptions of nonhuman animals in eight of its twelve testaments. This article is the first to examine these descriptions of nonhumans. In ...

May 31, 2025 doi: 10.1177/09518207251339938 open full text
The hidden figure of Isaiah 51:16 and the preexistence of the son of man in the Parables of Enoch.
J. Andrew CowanGeorg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany.
Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha. May 24, 2025

Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha, Volume 35, Issue 3, Page 217-230, March 2026.
Scholars have long puzzled over the Parables of Enoch’s depiction of the figure identified as the Son of Man as existing before creation. Previous proposals have suggested that this idea derives from the influence of the depiction of wisdom in Prov 8:22–...

May 24, 2025 doi: 10.1177/09518207251340011 open full text
The hidden figure of Isaiah 51:16 and the preexistence of the son of man in the Parables of Enoch.
J. Andrew CowanGeorg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany.
Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha. May 24, 2025

Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha, Volume 35, Issue 3, Page 217-230, March 2026.
Scholars have long puzzled over the Parables of Enoch’s depiction of the figure identified as the Son of Man as existing before creation. Previous proposals have suggested that this idea derives from the influence of the depiction of wisdom in Prov 8:22–...

May 24, 2025 doi: 10.1177/09518207251340011 open full text
Only gentiles become white cattle in 1 Enoch 90:38.
Samuel L. TurpinMarquette University, USA.
Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha. April 24, 2025

Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha, Volume 35, Issue 3, Page 201-216, March 2026.
The Animal Apocalypse, a second-century BCE allegorical dream vision, concludes its zoomorphic retelling of Israel’s history with a prophecy of future restoration: “And I saw until all their species were changed, and they all became white cattle” (1 En. ...

April 24, 2025 doi: 10.1177/09518207251325257 open full text
Only gentiles become white cattle in 1 Enoch 90:38.
Samuel L. TurpinMarquette University, USA.
Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha. April 24, 2025

Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha, Volume 35, Issue 3, Page 201-216, March 2026.
The Animal Apocalypse, a second-century BCE allegorical dream vision, concludes its zoomorphic retelling of Israel’s history with a prophecy of future restoration: “And I saw until all their species were changed, and they all became white cattle” (1 En. ...

April 24, 2025 doi: 10.1177/09518207251325257 open full text