[B-Greek] GREEK OT Pseudepigrapha in English?

Kevin W. Woodruff cierpke at prodigy.net
Mon Apr 4 15:36:54 EDT 2005


Jim:

Have you tried:
 Outside the Old Testament / [compiled by] M. de
Jonge.
Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge
University Press, c1985.
xv, 263 p. ; 23 cm. 
Cambridge commentaries on writings of the Jewish and
Christian world, 200 BC to AD 200 

or 

the series Pseudepigrapha Veteris Testamenti Graece
published by Brill?

Kevin





--- "James M. Darlack" <jdarlack at gmail.com> wrote:
> Does anyone out there know of a reliable English
> translation of the GREEK texts of the Old Testament
> Pseudepigrapha? 
> 
> Accordance has compiled the Greek texts, and that
> there is a French concordance to the Greek OTP in
> print (quite a hefty book), but when correlating the
> Greek text to either Charles, Sparks or
> Charlesworth, one is faced with using an English
> translation of the Ethiopic, Coptic or Latin texts
> (and these don't always match a translation of the
> Greek). I know that often the Greek texts are
> fragmentary and the other versions are more
> "complete," but it would be helpful for the sake of
> background studies to have the actual fragmentary
> Greek texts in translation. Some texts are
> translated directly from the Greek in the English
> editions, so they are not a big deal, but others are
> quite a pain to put together (like Jubilees &
> Enoch)--especially if one's knowledge of
> extra-biblical Greek (or Ethiopic, etc.) is sub par
> (like myself).
> 
> If one exists...could you point me in the right
> direction...
> 
> If such a work does not exist, then does anyone out
> there think that such a compilation would be
> worthwhile?
> 
> It seems like this would be a great project for
> folks either in the seminary or the university
> working on their Greek!
> 
> ~Jim
> 
> James M. Darlack, M.A.O.T. 
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