Originally published: Sheffield : Sheffield Academic Press, 2000, in series: Journal for the study of the pseudepigrapha. Supplement series.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

'The law and the words' as a canonical formula within the Old Testament / Stephen B. Chapman -- Death shall be their shepherd: an interpretation of Psalm 49.15 in the Masoretic text and the Septuagint / Staffan Olofsson -- On the use of scripture in the development of militant Davidic messianism at Qumran: new light from Psalm of Solomon 17 / Kenneth R. Atkinson -- Josephus's biblical paraphrase as a commentary on contemporary issues / Louis H. Feldman -- Torah of Moses: pseudonymous attribution in Second Temple writings / Hindy Najman -- One good story deserves another: the hermeneutics of invoking secondary biblical episodes in the narratives of Pseudo-Philo and the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs / Bruce N. Fisk --

The noun-vocabulary of Jesus' Aramaic / John Pairman Brown -- The kingdom of heaven forcefully advances / R. Steven Notley -- Peter as Jesus' mouth: Matthew 16.13-20 in the light of Exodus 4.10-17 and other models / Benedict T. Viviano -- At the well of living water: Jacob traditions in John 4 / Ellen B. Aitken -- 'Interpretive citation' in the epistle of Barnabas and the early Christian attitude towards the Temple Mount / Yaron Z. Eliav -- The role of 'The Attribute of Justice' in the Targumim / Christian M.M. Brady -- 'Is Saul also among the scribes?' Scribes and prophets in Targum Jonathan / Anthony J. Saldarini -- Doeg the Edomite: from biblical villain to rabbinic sage / Richard Kalmin -- The use of the Derash method in the Targum of Ezekiel / Josep Ribera-Florit -- Targum of the Song of songs and the dynamics of historical allegory / Esther M. Menn.