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The Five Fragments of the Apocryphon of Ezekiel: A Critical Study. By JAMES R. MUELLER. Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha Supplement Series, vol. 5. Sheffield: SHEFFIELD ACADEMIC PRESS, 1994. Pp. 196. 27.50, $41.
"Scholars who wish to describe the past . . . must investigate the totality of the evidence available . . . we need to listen to every voice. . ." (p. II). Radical commitment to philology can alone justify this painstaking, minute restudy of what may be traces of a lost Apocryphon of Ezekiel.
Evidence of a work so titled appears in a book list of the ninth century C.E. (Stichometry of Nicephorus). In Charlesworth's Old Testament Pseudepigrapha (New York: Doubleday, 1983), I: 487-95, Mueller and S. E. Robinson introduce and translate what have long been regarded as five citations (= "fragments") from it. Of those, only one...