Note 510 — Chapter V · PRE-CHRISTIAN GNOSTICS: THE ESSENES

They are arranged in the text as near as possible in the order of their probable dates. As to these and on the question of authorship, see Charles, Crit. Hist. pp. 172-226. The Sibylline Oracles can now be consulted in the scholarly edition of Rzach (Sibyllina Oracula, 1891), and in Dr Charles’ Apocrypha of the O.T. (see below). The Greek text of the Psalms of Solomon with a French translation and critical introduction has been published by Dr J. Viteau and M. François Martin (Les Psaumes de Salomon, Paris, 1911). (The Odes of Solomon recently recovered for us by Dr Rendel Harris are most probably Christian hymns.) The Latin text of the 4th Book of Esdras is given by Bensly and James in Cambridge Texts and Studies, vol. III. No. 2, and an English translation of part of it appears in the Apocrypha of the A. V. (see Speaker’s Commentary for a good text and commentary by Lupton). The Wisdom Literature, i.e. the Wisdom of Solomon and Ecclesiasticus, also appears in the Apocrypha of the A.V., as do the Books of Maccabees. English versions of all the other books with critical notes and introductions have been published by Prof. Charles as follows: Book of Enoch, Oxford, 1893; Book of the Secrets of Enoch, Oxford, 1896; Apocalypse of Baruch, 1896; Assumption of Moses, 1897; Book of Jubilees, 1902; and Testament of the XII Patriarchs, 1908. All the above appear in English dress in Dr Charles’ Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the O.T., Oxford, 1913.