Apocrypha: Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture, OT Volume 15 [ACCS]
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Apocrypha: Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture, OT Volume 15 [ACCS]   -     Edited By: Sever J. Voicu, Thomas C. Oden
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Apocrypha: Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture, OT Volume 15 [ACCS]

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Hear ancient voices of the church speak as they engage with sacred Scripture in Christianity's formative years. Covering the second to the mid-eighth centuries, the final volume in this acclaimed series includes the RSV text; renders Greek, Latin, Coptic, and Syriac writings into English; and provides biographical sketches and a timeline of ancient Christian sources. 384 pages, hardcover from InterVarsity.

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Title: Apocrypha: Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture, OT Volume 15 [ACCS]
By: Edited by Sever Voicu
Format: Hardcover
Number of Pages: 384
Vendor: IVP Academic
Publication Date: 2010
Dimensions: 10.00 X 7.00 (inches)
Weight: 2 pounds 15 ounces
ISBN: 083081485X
ISBN-13: 9780830814855
Series: Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture
Stock No: WW814855

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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.

Author Bio

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 a pioneering theologian and served as the architect and general editor for the Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture. He was also the general editor of the Ancient Christian Doctrine series and the Ancient Christian Devotional series, as well as a consulting editor for the Encyclopedia of Ancient Christianity. A prolific writer and seasoned teacher, Oden also served as the director of the Center for Early African Christianity at Eastern University in Pennsylvania and was active in the Confessing Movement in America, particularly within the United Methodist Church.

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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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