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Apocrypha (Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture, OT Volume 15) Hardcover – May 28, 2010

by Sever Voicu (Editor), Thomas C. Oden (Editor)
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While the canonical status of the Greek and Latin Old Testament texts commented on within this volume has been understood differently within Protestant, Roman Catholic, and Orthodox traditions, their longstanding use within the Christian churches makes them worthy of careful study and reflection. As noted in the Anglican Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion, Jerome says that the church reads the Apocrypha "for example of life and instruction of manners." As a result their influence extends well beyond ecclesiastical use to literature, hymnody, music, and art.

Their questioned authority has nevertheless affected the choice of books included here, not by a priori judgment but by the paucity of comment from which to choose. None of the early fathers dedicated commentaries to these texts as a whole. Despite the length of 1 and 2 Maccabees and the model they presented for Christian martyrdom, they were rarely cited or commented on. The Wisdom books received the most comment and are those best represented here.

In particular, readers will find ample comment on Tobit, Wisdom of Solomon, Sirach, Baruch, the Letter of Jeremiah, the Prayer of Azariah, and the Song of the Three Young Men, Susanna, and Bel and the Dragon (the latter three all found as additions to the Hebrew and Aramaic book of Daniel). Among commentators readers will find Origen, John Chrysostom, Theodoret of Cyr, Hippolytus, Jerome, Augustine, Julius Africanus, Athanasius, Palladius, Cyril of Jerusalem, Clement of Alexandria, Bede, Rabanus Maurus, Clement of Rome, Ignatius, Cassiodorus, Ambrose, and others.

This Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture volume presents a worthy feast of patristic comment on these ancient and important texts, some of which is presented here in English translation for the first time.

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"Get a better understanding of the Apocrypha from an ancient perspective with the Apocrypha volume of the Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture! -- Paul Cain, LHP Quarterly Book Review, November 2010

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Sever Voicu is Scriptor Graecus at the Vatican Apostolic Library and Guest Professor at the Augustinian Patristic Institute in Rome. He has published mainly in the area of Greek Patristics and New Testament Apocrypha.



Thomas C. Oden (1931–2016), was the general editor of the Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture and the Ancient Christian Doctrine series as well as the author of Classic Christianity, a revision of his three-volume systematic theology. He was the director of the Center for Early African Christianity at Eastern University in Pennsylvania and he served as the Henry Anson Buttz Professor of Theology at The Theological School of Drew University in Madison, New Jersey. Oden was active in the Confessing Movement in America, particularly within the United Methodist Church and was president of The Institute for Classical Christian Studies. He suggested that Christians need to rely upon the wisdom of the historical Church, particularly the early Church, rather than on modern scholarship and theology and said his mission was "to begin to prepare the postmodern Christian community for its third millennium by returning again to the careful study and respectful following of the central tradition of classical Christianity."

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ IVP Academic; First Edition (May 28, 2010)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 575 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 083081485X
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0830814855
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.89 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 2.1 x 10 inches
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Less scholarly than I expected. The forward discusses the Council of Jamnia and its role in creating the Jewish canon. However, councils were a Christian invention and were unknown in Judaism. Furthermore, Jamnia did not decide upon the canon. This egregious error ruined the entire volume for me.
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A very much needed and indispensible help for understanding a part of the Bible that is frequently forgotten
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Theron Mathis
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Recently I taught through the books of the Apocrypha at our Adult Sunday School class. This was one of the books I used to help put my notes together. The other was the excellent  Introducing the Apocrypha: Message, Context, and Significance . Eventually the class lectures led to me writing and publishing  The Rest of the Bible , which is a devotional overview of these books.

I have several volumes of this series of commentaries and have mixed feelings about the various volumes. The impetus and intention of this project is admirable and needed, but at times the selected passages and authors seems questionable. Maybe I am asking too much, because the challenge to gather commentary from the various works of the Church Fathers is a daunting one. Of all the volumes I have read, the Genesis volume is by far the best.

The major disappointment with this volume is the lack of any commentary on the books of the Maccabees. Perhaps they are planning a part 2 or including that as a separate book. The Fathers quote Maccabees often, so there is no lack of material.

The portion of this book is the comments on Tobit. That alone is worth the cost of the volume.
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5.0 out of 5 stars IVP Continues it's service to the Church - Bringing Light to the Hidden Books
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One of the great services that InterVarsity Press has given us is a wide range of collections centered on the ancient Christians. These series, such as the series on the Creeds and this voluminous set, provides for modern Christians a touchstone to the past, a hallmark of those who have gone before. In doing so, they shed light on modern beliefs that `have always been.'

Billing itself as a `Christian Talmud' (Oden, Introduction xii), it contains passages of scripture (pericopes) with commentary by the patristic writers. The passages are given in the Revised Standard Version (unless textual variants require the use of the Latin), following the order and the versification of the RSV. Further, the arrangement of the books in this volume follow the RSV as well. While not all books (such as 1st Maccabees) is included, namely because ancient writers rarely if at all quoted from them, the more well know are, such as Wisdom, Sirach and Tobit.

The importance of these volumes resides not in the introductions, overviews, and histories provided, but in the author sources which are used. These volumes go beyond the normal name to include those Christians who are less known, but no less important. We have the standards like Clement of Rome, Augustine and Irenaeus but we have those not commonly cited in the West such as John Cassian. We also have unknowns (to me) such as Hesychius, Isaac of Nineveh, a few pseudo's, and even Fastidiosus. There are Elders, such as Salvian, and popes, such as Leo the Great. Victor of Vita and some Anonymous Italians join the list as well. As does Didymus the Blind and his teacher, Origen. The Julians Three make the list - of Eclanum, Pomerius and Africanus. Even the Spaniard, Leander of Seville makes the index of authors. And it goes on and on and on... with names that I wouldn't dare to pronounce out loud and some I even give up on before I think it.

The volumes include pericopes of passages, overviews, and topical arrangements per book. For this volume, a history of the Septuagint and an overview of the Apocryphal books are included as well. This serves to introduce, if needed, the readers to what they are about to read. It has not always been that these books were roundly excluded from Christian discourse, but have been used, some more than others, to help determine matters of the Church.

Each volume is large, and this one no different. Coming in at 540 pages worth of material, the fifteenth volume in the Old Testament series provides a much need review of early Christian writers and how they used the hidden books to bring to light Christian values, doctrines and dogma.
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