Thursday, June 16, 2011

Quotations from Lost Books in the Hebrew Bible

HERE'S MY HANDOUT for my keynote paper at the St Andrews Graduate Conference, being presented even as this post appears:
QUOTATIONS FROM LOST BOOKS IN THE HEBREW BIBLE
    Lost Books Cited in the Pentateuch
  • The Book of the Wars of YHWH plus a work song (Num 21:14-18a)
  • Excerpt from an Amorite Victory Song (Num 21:27-39)

    Lost Books Cited in The Deuteronomistic History
  • The Book of the Righteous (The Book of Jashar) or The Book of the Song (Josh 10:12-13a; 2 Sam 1:17-27; 1 Kgs 8:12-13 MT // 1 Kgs 8:53a LXX)
  • A book on the conduct of the kingship (1 Sam 10:25)
  • The sapiential works of Solomon (1 Kgs 5:12-13 [Evv 4:32-33])
  • The Book of the Acts of Solomon (1 Kgs 11:41)
  • The Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel (1 Kgs 14:19; 15:31; 16:5, 14, 20, 27; 22:39; 2 Kgs 1:18; 10:34; 13:8, 12; 14:15, 28; 15:11, 15, 21, 26, 31)
  • The Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah (1 Kgs 14:29; 15:7a, 23a; 22:46; 2 Kgs 8:23; 12:20 [Evv 12:19]; 14:18; 15:6, 36; 16:19; 20:20; 21:17, 25; 23:28; 24:5)

    Lost Books Cited in 1-2 Chronicles
  • The Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah (2 Chr 27:7; 35:26-27; 36:8a)
  • The Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel (2 Chr 16:11; 25:26; 28:26; 32:32)
  • The Book of the Kings of Israel (1 Chr 9:1a; 2 Chr 20:34)
  • The Midrash of the Book of Kings (2 Chr 24:27a)
  • The Acts of the Kings of Israel (2 Chr 33:18)

  • The Acts of Samuel the Seer, The Acts of Nathan the Prophet, and The Acts of Gad the Visionary (1 Chr 29:29-30)
  • The Acts of Nathan the Prophet, The Prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and The Visions of Jeddo the Visionary Concerning Jeroboam Son of Nebat (2 Chr 9:29)
  • The Acts of Shemiah the Prophet and Iddo the Visionary for Enrollment by Genealogy (2 Chr 12:15a)
  • The Midrash of the Prophet Iddo (2 Chr 13:22)
  • The Acts of Uzziah (2 Chr 26:22)
  • The Words of the Visionaries (2 Chr 33:19)

    The Chronicler's sources as a single digest of The Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel and The Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?

  • The Book of the Chronicles of King David (1 Chr 27:23-24)
  • King David's plan from YHWH for the Temple (1 Chr 28:19)
  • Writings of David and Solomon on the divisions of the Levites (2 Chr 35:4)

  • The Laments of Jeremiah and the singers over King Josiah (2 Chr 35:25)
Just to get you thinking. You will have to wait until Old Testament Pseudepigrapha: More Noncanonical Scriptures volume one comes out to read the full article.