=The Times Literary Supplement= says: “These Jewish Apocalypses
have a direct relation to the thought and religious ideals which
confronted primitive Christianity in Palestine, and not only for
their own sakes, but for their influence on the New Testament and
Apostolic Christianity they deserve careful attention. Handbooks at
once so scholarly and so readable will be welcomed by all interested
in Christian origins.”
=The Church Quarterly Review= says: “To the theological student who
is anxious to know something of the circumstances and thought of the
time during which Christianity grew up, and of the Jewish environment
of the teaching of our Lord and the Apostles, there is no class of
books more valuable than the later Jewish Apocrypha.”
=The Church Times= says: “The names of the Editors are a guarantee of
trustworthy and expert scholarship, and their work has been admirably
performed.”
=The Tablet= says: “A valuable series ... well brought out and should
prove useful to students.”
=Catholic Book Notes= says: “The S.P.C.K. is to be congratulated on
its various series of cheap and useful books for students.”
=The Journal of the Society of Oriental Research (U.S.A.)= says: “The
S.P.C.K. have again made the whole body of students, interested in
things Jewish and Early Christian, their debtors ... their splendid
work in this series.”
=The Living Church (U.S.A.)= says: “To praise this project too highly
is an impossibility. Everyone has felt the need of such a series of
handy and inexpensive translations of these documents and ... we are
assured of excellent results.”
_=Translations of Early Documents=_
FIRST SERIES--Palestinian-Jewish and
Cognate Texts (Pre-Rabbinic)
=1. Jewish Documents in the Time of Ezra=
Translated from the Aramaic by A. E. COWLEY, Litt.D.,
Sub-Librarian of the Bodleian Library, Oxford. 4_s._ 6_d._ net.
=2. The Wisdom of Ben-Sira (Ecclesiasticus)=
By the Rev. W. O. E. OESTERLEY, D.D., Vicar of St. Alban’s,
Bedford Park, W.; Examining Chaplain to the Bishop of London.
2_s._ 6_d._ net.
=3. The Book of Enoch=
By the Rev. R. H. CHARLES, D.D., Canon of Westminster. 2_s._
6_d._ net.
=4. The Book of Jubilees=
By the Rev. Canon CHARLES. 4_s._ net.
=5. The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs=
By the Rev. Canon CHARLES. 2_s._ 6_d._ net.
=6. The Odes and Psalms of Solomon=
By the Rev. G. H. BOX, M.A., Rector of Sutton, Beds., Hon. Canon
of St. Albans.
=7. The Ascension of Isaiah=
By the Rev. Canon CHARLES. Together with No. 10 in one volume.
4_s._ 6_d._ net.
=8. The Apocalypse of Ezra (ii. Esdras)=
By the Rev. Canon BOX. 2_s._ 6_d._ net.
=9. The Apocalypse of Baruch=
By the Rev. Canon CHARLES. Together with No. 12 in one volume,
2_s._ 6_d._ net.
=10. The Apocalypse of Abraham=
By the Rev. Canon BOX. Together with No. 7 in one volume. 4_s._
6_d._ net.
=11. The Testaments of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob=
By the Rev. Canon BOX and S. GAZELEE.
=12. The Assumption of Moses=
By Rev. W. J. FERRAR, M.A., Vicar of Holy Trinity, East Finchley.
With No. 9 in one volume. 2_s._ 6_d._ net.
=13. The Biblical Antiquities of Philo=
By M. R. JAMES, Litt.D., F.B.A., Hon. Litt.D., Dublin, Hon.
LL.D., St. Andrews, Provost of King’s College, Cambridge. 8_s._
6_d._ net.
=14. The Lost Apocrypha of the Old Testament=
By M. R. JAMES, Litt.D. 5_s._ 6_d._ net.