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Book Review: Cultural Clash and Religion

significance of various pseudepigraphical and apocryphal texts, several of the essays in this volume also argue, by extension, that these works are worthy of inclusion in modern biblical collections (even if only for reference when studying the canonical works). This is certainly an intriguing suggestion; however, those scholars who attempt to make such an argument for a sort of “biblical inclusivity” must be cautious not to commit cultural colonialism or assume that they have the authority to prescribe the boundaries of biblical collections for religious communities today. This volume ought to give further consideration to the fact that, just because a group of scholars is interested in a group of texts that may have been deemed scriptural in some limited historical context, it does not necessarily warrant the attempts of scholars to impose those texts upon contemporary religious communities. Despite this conceptual shortcoming, the essays in the collection provide a wonderful resource for current analyses of the reception of early Jewish and Christian noncanonical writings. The rigor and attention to detail in the analyses of the literaryhistorical reception of these works is commendable and make this volume particularly palatable to specialists and students of biblical studies, early Judaism and early Christianity. The diversity of topics covered in these essays also makes this collection a significant resource for research on individual apocryphal and pseudepigraphical works. Each of the papers included in this collection serves to help rethink the fixity of the biblical collection, challenging readers to develop a greater appreciation for the complexity and history of a closed “canon.” In this manner, this volume innovatively fulfills its focus of analyzing how various apocryphal and pseudepigraphical works functioned in the communities that received them.