Ancient Texts for New Testament Studies

Professor Craig A. Evans has updated , and changed the title, of his former book Noncanonical Writings and New Testament Interpretation (1992), now issued asAncient Texts for New Testament Studies: A Guide to the Background Literature (Hendrickson Press, Peabody, Ma, 2005). 528 pp. The book deals with the great amount of relevant literature as the Old Testament apocrypha, the Old Testament pseudepigrapha, the Dead Sea Scrolls, assorted ancient translations of the Old Testament and the Targum paraphrases, Philo and Josephus, Rabbinic texts, the New Testament pseudepigrapha, the early church fathers, various gnostic writings, and more.

Philo is dealt with as Philo (p. 168f); Philo and the New Testament (p. 170f); and General bibliography for Philo (p. 172).