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MICHAEL E. STONE and THEODORE A. BERGREN (eds.), Biblical Figures Outside the Bible (Harrisburg, PA: Trinity, 1998). Pp. xiii + 433. $35.
This collection contains thirteen studies on how biblical figures were interpreted in extrabiblical sources, not only Jewish but also Christian, Gnostic, and even Islamic, and not only early on, but even as late as medieval times: Gary A. Anderson, "Adam and Eve in the `Life of Adam and Eve"' (pp. 7-32); John D. Turner, "The Gnostic Seth" (pp. 33-58); Steven D. Fraade, "Enosh and his Generation Revisited" (pp. 59-86); Philip S. Alexander, "From Son of Adam to Second God: Transformations of the Biblical Enoch" (pp. 87-122); Devorah Dimant, "Noah in Early Jewish Literature" (pp. 123-50); George W. E. Nickelsburg, "Abraham the Convert: A Jewish Tradition and its Use by the Apostle Paul" (pp. 151-75); Birger A. Pearson, "Melchizedek in Early Judaism, Christianity, and Gnosticism" (pp. 176-202); Marinus de Jonge and Johannes Tromp, "Jacob's Son Levi in the Old Testament Pseudepigrapha and Related Literature" (pp. 203-36); Harm W. Hollander, "The Portrayal of Joseph in Hellenistic Jewish and Early Christian Literature" (pp. 237-63); J. Edward Wright, "Baruch: His Evolution from...