The present volume examines a wide range of pseudonymous authorial constructions from Early Judaism to the Greek and Roman world. Its chief aim is to update respected treatments of the past with a fresh awareness of the immense variety of texts and strategies.

Since the classic studies of early Christian pseudepigraphy in the 1960s and 70s, pseudonymity has been a vital question of New Testament scholarship. Yet no comprehensive, new work taking into consideration the many recent developments in the field has been published. Today scholarship demands exacting discussions of ancient parallels, categorizing method and type of authorial fiction and addressing respective functions and legacies. The present volume meets this demand through its examination of a wide range of pseudonymous authorial constructions from Early Judaism to the Greek and Roman world. It features treatments of apocalyptic, Qumran, wisdom and apocryphal literature as well as the ancient letter novel while maintaining a focus on New Testament epistolary literature. The volume covers all NT texts commonly viewed as pseudonymous as well as Hebrews. Its chief aim is to update respected treatments of the past with a fresh awareness of the immense variety of texts and strategies.

Inhalt
Martina Janßen / Jörg Frey: Einführung
I. Frühjüdische Kontexte
Leo G. Perdue: Pseudonymity and Graeco-Roman Rhetoric. Mimesis and the Wisdom of Solomon - Karina Martin Hogan: Pseudepigraphy and the Periodization of History in Jewish Apocalypses - Eibert Tigchelaar: Forms of Pseudepigraphy in the Dead Sea Scrolls
II. Griechisch-römische Kontexte
Wolfgang Speyer: Göttliche und menschliche Verfasserschaft im Altertum - Martina Janßen: Antike (Selbst-)Aussagen über Beweggründe zur Pseudepigraphie - Marco Frenschkowski: Erkannte Pseudepigraphie? Ein Essay über Fiktionalität, Antike und Christentum - Katharina Luchner: Pseudepigraphie und antike Briefromane - Timo Glaser: Erzählung im Fragment. Ein narratologischer Ansatz zur Auslegung pseudepigrapher Briefbücher - Robert Matthew Calhoun: The Letter of Mithridates. A Neglected Item of Ancient Epistolary Theory
III. Frühchristliche Kontexte
Harry Y. Gamble: Pseudonymity and the New Testament Canon - Eve-Marie Becker: Von Paulus zu "Paulus". Paulinische Pseudepigraphie-Forschung als literaturgeschichtliche Aufgabe - Martin Hüneburg: Paulus versus Paulus. Der Epheserbrief als Korrektur des Kolosserbriefes - Nicole Frank: Der Kolosserbrief und die "Philosophia". Pseudepigraphie als Spiegel frühchristlicher Auseinandersetzungen um die Auslegung des paulinischen Erbes - Trevor Thompson: A Stone that Still Won't Fit. An Introductory and Editorial Note for Edgar Krentz's "A Stone that Will Not Fit" - Edgar Krentz: A Stone That Will Not Fit. The Non-Pauline Autorship of 2 Thessalonians - Trevor Thompson: As If Genuine. Interpreting the Pseudepigraphic Second Thessalonians - Jens Herzer: Fiktion oder Täuschung? Zur Diskussion über die Pseudepigraphie der Pastoralbriefe - Clare K. Rothschild: Hebrews as a Guide to Reading Romans - Matthias Konradt: "Jakobus, der Gerechte". Erwägungen zur Verfasserfiktion des Jakobusbriefes - Matt Jackson-McCabe: The Politics of Pseudepigraphy and the Letter of James - Karl Matthias Schmidt: Die Stimme des Apostels erheben. Pragmatische Leistungen der Autorenfiktion in den Petrusbriefen - Lutz Doering: Apostle, Co-Elder, and Witness of Suffering. Author Construction and Peter Image in First Peter - Jörg Frey: Autorfiktion und Gegnerbild im Judasbrief und im Zweiten Petrusbrief - Jutta Leonhardt-Balzer: Pseudepigraphie und Gemeinde in den Johannesbriefen - Stefan Krauter: Was ist "schlechte" Pseudepigraphie? Mittel, Wirkung und Intention von Pseudepigraphie in den Epistolae Senecae ad Paulum et Pauli ad Senecam
Nachwort
David E. Aune: Reconceptualizing the Phenomenon of Ancient Pseudepigraphy: An Epilogue