The New Oxford Annotated Apocrypha, Third Edition, New Revised Standard Version

by Coogan, Michael D.; Brettler, Marc Z.; Newsom, Carol A.; Perkins, Pheme

• ISBN13: 9780195288001
• ISBN10: 0195288009
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-01-25
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

The New Oxford Annotated Apocrypha, Third Edition is a useful reference tool for students of intertestamental or Jewish history. It contains all the notes found in the Apocryphal / Deuterocanonical books of the New Oxford Annotated Bible, Third Edition. Students, professors and generalreaders alike have relied upon the Oxford Annotated Bible for four decades. Now a new editorial board and team of contributors have completely updated this classic work. The result is a volume which maintains and extends the excellence the Annotated's users have come to expect, bringing newinsights, information, and approaches to bear upon the understanding of the biblical text.

Table of Contents

Alphabetical Listing of the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books	ix
List of Abbreviations	xi
The Editors' Preface	xv
To the Reader	xvii
Geography of the Bible	xix
The Persian and Hellenistic Periods	xxii
Calendar	xxix
Chronological Table of Rulers	xxx
The Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books
Introduction	3	(8)
The Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books are listed here in four groupings, as follows:
Books and Additions to Esther and Daniel that are in the Roman Catholic, Greek, and Slavonic Bibles
Tobit	11	(21)
Judith	32	(21)
The Additions to the Book of Esther (with a translation of the entire Greek text of Esther)	53	(17)
Wisdom of Solomon	70	(30)
Ecclesiasticus, or the Wisdom of Jesus, Son of Sirach	100	(76)
Baruch	176	(8)
The Letter of Jeremiah (Baruch ch 6)	184	(5)
The Additions to the Greek Book of Daniel: The Prayer of Azariah and the Song of the Three Jews	189	(5)
Susanna	194	(4)
Bel and the Dragon	198	(3)
1 Maccabees	201	(44)
2 Maccabees	245	(34)
Books in the Greek and Slavonic Bibles; not in the Roman Catholic Canon
1 Esdras (2 Esdras in Slavonic, 3 Esdras in Appendix to Vulgate)	279	(22)
Prayer of Manasseh (in Appendix to Vulgate)	301	(2)
Psalm 151 (following Psalm 150 in the Greek Bible)	303	(2)
3 Maccabees	305	(15)
In the Slavonic Bible and in the Latin Vulgate Appendix
2 Esdras (3 Esdras in Slavonic, 4 Esdras in Vulgate Appendix)	320	(42)
Note: In the Latin Vulgate, Ezra-Nehemiah are 1 and 2 Esdras
In an Appendix to the Greek Bible
4 Maccabees	362