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  • 11 - ‘The Borderland of the Bible’

  • from Part V - Manuscripts, Morality, and Metaphysics
  • Edited by Simon Goldhill, University of Cambridge, Ruth Jackson Ravenscroft, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
  • Book:
    Victorian Engagements with the Bible and Antiquity
    Published online:
    28 September 2023
    Print publication:
    12 October 2023, pp 284-308

  • Summary

    This chapter explores the fascination that the biblical apocrypha held for Montague Rhodes James (1862-1936) and explains his relationship to contemporary Cambridge scholarship that pioneered the study of those texts in the context of New Testament scholarship. It places MRJ’s work on the biblical apocrypha within his wider fascination for ‘old stories’, and considers the similarities between his scholarly work on Greek apocrypha and pseudepigrapha and his activities as a medievalist and codicologist, with particular reference both to manuscript studies and to his interpretation of the sculpture in the Lady Chapel at Ely Cathedral.