The Romanian Version of the Testament of Abraham: Text, Translation Cultural, Context

From: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly | Date: July 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

NICOLAE RODDY, The Romanian Version of the Testament of Abraham: Text, Translation, Cultural Context (SBLEJL 19; Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2001). Pp. x + 140. $39.95.

Our knowledge of that large textual body known as "the apocrypha" grows steadily, as witnessed by the stream of new volumes in the Corpus Christianorum Series Apocryphorum; but it grows in a patchy way with the edition of a text now from here, now from there. It will be a long while before we obtain an overview of how these works influenced Christian imagination over the centuries. It is as a contribution to ...

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