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1 SUMMARY:
The Apocryphal and
Pseudepigraphal literature such as contained in this
volume of The
Researchers Library of Ancient Texts (Volume
One—The Apocrypha: Includes the Books of Enoch,
Jasher, and Jubilees), provides literature that
often precedes or follows the chronology of biblical
texts, which frequently are used or assigned as
supplemental works within academic settings to help
students and scholars discover or better understand
cultural and historical context within the Word of
God. While not considered part of the the
canon of Scripture, these ancient texts provide
commentators’ valuable insight into what many
ancient Jews and early Christians believed when,
“God, who at sundry times and in divers manners
spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets”
(Heb. 1:1).
The
Researchers Library of Ancient Texts - Volume 1 is
thus intended as a supplemental resource for assisting
serious researchers and students in the study of the
Bible and Bible times.
Contained in Volume 1:
The
Book of Enoch, The
Book of Jasher, The
Book of Jubilees, 1
Esdras, 2
Esdras, 1
Maccabees, 2
Maccabees, Tobias,
Judith, Wisdom,
Sirach, Baruch,
Susanna, Prayer
of Azariah, Prayer
of Manasseh, Bel
and the Dragon, and Laodiceans. |
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2 SUMMARY:
The
Apostolic Fathers included in this volume (also called
the Ante-Nicene Fathers), covers the Early
Christian writings from the beginning of Christianity
until the promulgation of the Nicene Creed at the
First Council of Nicaea, which was convened in
Bithynia by the Roman Emperor Constantine I in AD 325.
As such, writings contained in this volume of The
Researchers Library of Ancient Texts (Volume Two—The
Apostolic Fathers: Includes
Clement, Anthenagorus, Mathetes, Polycarp, Ignatius,
Barnabas, Papias, Justin Martyr, and Irenaeus),
provides literature that follows the chronology of New
Testament texts, which frequently are used or assigned
as supplemental works within academic settings to help
students and scholars discover or better understand
cultural and historical context of the early Christian
Church as well as valuable insights into what many ancient Jews and early
Christians believed when, “God, who at sundry times
and in divers manners spake in time past unto the
fathers by the prophets” (Heb. 1:1). The
Researchers Library of Ancient Texts - Volume 2
is thus intended as a supplemental resource for assisting
serious researchers and students in the study of the
Bible and the early Church age. Contained in
Volume 2: The works of Clement,
Anthenagorus, Mathetes, Polycarp, Ignatius, Barnabas,
Papias, Justin Martyr, and Irenaeus. |
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3 SUMMARY:
The Septuagint (or "LXX",
or "Greek Old Testament") is a translation
of the Hebrew Old Testament, which was sponsored
according to tradition in the late 3rd century BC by Ptolemy
II Philadelphus, the king of Ptolemaic Egypt (283
BC to 246 BC). The Greek translation was originally
created for use by the Alexandrian Jews who were
fluent in Koine Greek, but not in Hebrew. Thus the
Septuagint is sometimes called the "Apostle's
Bible" and was the one that Jesus and his disciples
had access to. It is quoted in the New
Testament by writers such as the Apostle Paul, and
remained the Scripture of use by the Apostolic Fathers
as well. The Researchers Library of Ancient
Texts - Volume 3 faithfully reproduces the
translation of the Septuagint into English by Sir
Lancelot C. L. Brenton, first published in 1851 and
based primarily upon one of the
oldest extant manuscripts of the Greek Bible. It
remains the standard of use by many scholars and
students of Scripture and history. Contained in
Volume 3: The
English Translation of the Greek
Septuagint Bible. |
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