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The question of an alleged resurrection in Jubilees 23:29–31 朱比利记》23：29-31 中所谓的复活问题

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Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha Pub Date : 2024-06-01 DOI: 10.1177/09518207231217202

John Granger Cook

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A missing meal of reconciliation: The consumption of food as deficient motif in the Joseph story and its resolution in Jubilees and Josephus 缺失的和解之餐：约瑟夫故事中作为缺陷主题的食物消费及其在《朱比利斯书》和《约瑟夫书》中的解决之道

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Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha Pub Date : 2024-06-01 DOI: 10.1177/09518207231217243

Magnus Rabel

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The dilemma of King David: Reading Josephus’ Antiquities against the grain through the lens of Greco-Roman tyrant typologies 大卫王的两难处境：从希腊罗马暴君类型学的角度解读约瑟夫斯的《古事记

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Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha Pub Date : 2024-06-01 DOI: 10.1177/09518207231217204

David R. Edwards

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From the new editors: Pseudepigrapha in the 2020s 来自新编辑2020 年代的伪经

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Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha Pub Date : 2024-06-01 DOI: 10.1177/09518207241254681

Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Matthew Goff

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Kings from the Sun: Usages of an Eastern title in the Sibylline Oracles and related material 来自太阳的国王西伯利亚神谕》及相关资料中东方称谓的用法

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Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha Pub Date : 2024-06-01 DOI: 10.1177/09518207231217215

Vicente Dobroruka

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Recent research on the so-called Life of Joseph also known as In pulcherrimum Ioseph 对所谓的《约瑟夫的一生》（又称《约瑟夫的一生》）的最新研究

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Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha Pub Date : 2024-06-01 DOI: 10.1177/09518207241252540

Angela Standhartinger

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The three colors of humanity: Early Jewish race-making in 1 Enoch’s Animal Apocalypse 人类的三种颜色以诺书 1 的《动物启示录》中早期犹太人的种族划分

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Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha Pub Date : 2024-03-20 DOI: 10.1177/09518207241227671

Emily Olsen

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The necessity of form and spatial content for defining “apocalypse” and “apocalyptic” 形式和空间内容对界定 "启示录 "和 "世界末日 "的必要性

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Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha Pub Date : 2024-03-20 DOI: 10.1177/09518207231217237

Benjamin E. Reynolds

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Demonstratio et veritas. Priestly oracles in Pseudo-Philo’s Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum Demonstratio et veritas.伪菲洛的《圣经古籍》中的祭司神谕

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Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha Pub Date : 2024-03-20 DOI: 10.1177/09518207231169034

Fabrizio Marcello

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“Like one of the glorious ones”: The transformation of Enoch in 2 Enoch 22 "像荣耀者中的一员"：以诺书》22 中以诺的转变

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Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha Pub Date : 2024-03-20 DOI: 10.1177/09518207231190609

Randall E. Otto

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