Beit Avi Chai presents "Forgotten Books": The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha-between the Bible and the Mishnah.
During the Second Temple period, an extensive, diverse, and fascinating body of Jewish literature was written that did not make it into the Bible or the canonical collections of rabbinical literature. Only some of it has survived. The books include philosophical, historical, halakhic, and polemical works, as well as works that contain the buds of exegetical literature and Midrash.
Speaker: Prof. Hananel Mack, scholar of Midrash and Aggadah, Bar-Ilan University
Part 1: After the Bible
• Tuesday, October 19, 8 PM
An overview of post-Biblical literature, its estimated scope, its state of preservation, and its status in Jewish culture, with the emphasis on the book of Sirach
Part 2: A different look at the Bible
• Tuesday, October 26, 8 PM
Revisions of Biblical stories as reflected in the Book of Jubilees, the Book of Enoch, the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, and the Testament of Job.
Part 3: Languages and Additions
• Tuesday, November 2, 8 PM
On the Septuagint, additions to the books of Esther and Daniel, and prayers attributed to the heroes of the Bible
Part 4: The Secret of Togetherness
• Tuesday, November 9, 8 PM
The Qumran sect lived in the Judean Desert and left behind a written treasure of Biblical commentary, prayer, halakhic texts, and rules for society. On the writings of the sect and early Christian literature.
Part 5: Know How to Respond
• Tuesday, November 16, 8 PM
On historiographical literature and the polemics of the Second Temple period as reflected in the book of Judith, Maccabees 1 and 2, and the writings of Philo of Alexandria and Josephus.
This is a Hebrew-language only event.
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