Johannes Tromp

The Assumption of Moses: A Critical Edition with Commentary

The present volume provides for the long-felt need for a new critical edition of, and a full commentary on the Assumption of Moses, a Palestinian Jewish pseudepigraphon from the first century A.D. The book consists of four parts: I. Critical edition; II. Description of the Latin used in the text; III. The history of research on As. Mos., including the authors conclusions with regard to the literary-historical questions; IV. Detailed commentary. A bibliography and indices complete the book. This edition and commentary greatly enhance the accessibility of one of the most important witnesses of first-century Judaism, the matrix of earliest Christianity.

The Role of Omissions in the History of the Literary Development of the Greek Life of Adam and Eve

In this contribution it is argued that the textual history of the Greek Life of Adam and Eve is characterized as much by omissions as by additions. Moreover, the literary arguments that are commonly used in the text-critical debate on the priority of a longer or shorter reading have proved to be useless. The most primitive text should be established on purely text critical, stemmatic grounds. Only then can a copyists or editors motivations for having apparently added or omitted a specific passage be recovered.