James H. Charlesworth
Encyclopedia
James H. Charlesworth is the George L. Collord Professor of New Testament
Language
and Literature and director of the Dead Sea Scrolls Project at Princeton Theological Seminary
. He is noted for his research in Apocrypha
and Pseudepigrapha of the Hebrew
and Christian
Bibles, the Dead Sea Scrolls
, Josephus
, the Historical Jesus
, and the Gospel of John
. He is a Founder and Veteran of the Enoch seminar
and a member of the Advisory Board of the Journal Henoch
.
New Testament
The New Testament is the second major division of the Christian biblical canon, the first such division being the much longer Old Testament....
Language
Koine Greek
Koine Greek is the universal dialect of the Greek language spoken throughout post-Classical antiquity , developing from the Attic dialect, with admixture of elements especially from Ionic....
and Literature and director of the Dead Sea Scrolls Project at Princeton Theological Seminary
Princeton Theological Seminary
Princeton Theological Seminary is a theological seminary of the Presbyterian Church located in the Borough of Princeton, New Jersey in the United States...
. He is noted for his research in Apocrypha
Apocrypha
The term apocrypha is used with various meanings, including "hidden", "esoteric", "spurious", "of questionable authenticity", ancient Chinese "revealed texts and objects" and "Christian texts that are not canonical"....
and Pseudepigrapha of the Hebrew
Tanakh
The Tanakh is a name used in Judaism for the canon of the Hebrew Bible. The Tanakh is also known as the Masoretic Text or the Miqra. The name is an acronym formed from the initial Hebrew letters of the Masoretic Text's three traditional subdivisions: The Torah , Nevi'im and Ketuvim —hence...
and Christian
New Testament
The New Testament is the second major division of the Christian biblical canon, the first such division being the much longer Old Testament....
Bibles, the Dead Sea Scrolls
Dead Sea scrolls
The Dead Sea Scrolls are a collection of 972 texts from the Hebrew Bible and extra-biblical documents found between 1947 and 1956 on the northwest shore of the Dead Sea, from which they derive their name...
, Josephus
Josephus
Titus Flavius Josephus , also called Joseph ben Matityahu , was a 1st-century Romano-Jewish historian and hagiographer of priestly and royal ancestry who recorded Jewish history, with special emphasis on the 1st century AD and the First Jewish–Roman War, which resulted in the Destruction of...
, the Historical Jesus
Historical Jesus
The term historical Jesus refers to scholarly reconstructions of the 1st-century figure Jesus of Nazareth. These reconstructions are based upon historical methods including critical analysis of gospel texts as the primary source for his biography, along with consideration of the historical and...
, and the Gospel of John
Gospel of John
The Gospel According to John , commonly referred to as the Gospel of John or simply John, and often referred to in New Testament scholarship as the Fourth Gospel, is an account of the public ministry of Jesus...
. He is a Founder and Veteran of the Enoch seminar
Enoch seminar
The Enoch Seminar is an academic group of international specialists in Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins who share information about their work in the field and biennially meet to discuss topics of common interest...
and a member of the Advisory Board of the Journal Henoch
Journal Henoch
Henoch: Studies in Judaism and Christianity from Second Temple to Late Antiquity is an academic journal established in 1979 by Paolo Sacchi that covers research on Second Temple Judaism in the period following the Babylonian exile, and the interactions between formative Judaism and formative...
.
Publications
- (ed.). The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, 2 vols. (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1983-85)
- The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha and the New Testament: Prolegomena for the Study of Christian Origins (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985)
- Jesus within Judaism: New Light from Exciting Archaeological Discoveries (New York: Doubleday, 1988) ISBN 0-385-23610-7.
- (ed.). Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls (New York: Doubleday, 1992)
- (ed.). The Messiah: Developments in Earliest Judaism and Christianity (Minneapolis: Fortress, 1992)
- (ed.). The Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls, 3 vols. (Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2006)
- (ed.). Jesus and Archaeology,Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2006, ISBN 080284880X
- Origins Matter, CBAP Lectures 2009 (Quezon City: Catholic Biblical Association of the Philippines, 2009)
- The Good and Evil Serpent: How a Universal Symbol Became Christianized (The Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library) (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010) ISBN-10: 0300140827