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Title: Fragments from the Hellenistic Jewish Authors. Vol. IV: Orphica
Secondary Title: SBL.TT 40 SBL.PS 14
Author: Holladay, Carl R.
Type: Book
Year: 1996
Abstract: "This volume concerns the poetic fragment called "Pseudo-Orpheus", which in its longest recension contains forty-six lines of hexameter verse and is widely regarded as a Jewish composition. After a general introduction (manuscripts, symbols and abbreviations used in the critical apparatus, bibliographies, other abbreviations), it provides an introduction to "Pseudo-Orpheus" (patristic witnesses, textual history, date, stemma, authorship, provenance, genre, significance) and bibliographical information. Next it presents on facing pages the Greek texts and translations of the patristic witnesses to "Pseudo-Orpheus": ps.-Justin's Cohortatio ad Graecos and De Monarchia, Clement of Alexandria, Eusebius, Cyril of Alexandria, Theodoret, and the Tübingen Theosophy. Then it offers texts and translations for the chief recensions (A, B, C, D) as well as philological commentaries on them. Also included are texts and translations of other Orphic fragments (OF 248 and 299) and five appendixes. Holladay is professor of NT at Candler School of Theology, Emory University, in Atlanta".
Keywords: Hellenism, Hellenistic Judaism, Philo