Papers from the 2005 annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The uniqueness and importance of the Slavonic pseudepigrapha / James H. Charlesworth -- The sea of Tiberias : between apocryphal literature and oral tradition / Florentina Badalanova Geller -- Die Geschichte Melchisedeks (HistMelch) im slavischen Kulturkreis / Christfried Bt̲trich -- Some problems of textology of indexes of prohibited books / Irina M. Gritsevskaya -- Old Testament apocrypha in the Serbian manuscript tradition / Tomislav Jovanoviþc -- Church Slavonic apocrypha and Slavic linguistics / Alexander Kulik -- Propitiatorium in the Apocalypse of Abraham / Basil Louri -̌- Slavonic Erotapokriseis : sources, transmission, and morphology of the genre / Anissava Miltenova -- The Slavonic Apocryphon of Zorobabel / Liudmila Navtanovich -- The heirs of the Enochic lore : "men of faith" in 2 Enoch 35:2 and Sefer Hekhalot 48d:10 / Andrei Orlov -- The Sibylline tradition in medieval and early modern Slavic culture / Michael Pesenson -- Slavonic apocryphal traditions in the Romanian lands : diffusion and diffraction / Nicolae Roddy -- Die handschriftliche berlieferung der Apokalypse Abrahams / Aurelio de Santos Otero -- The Testaments of the twelve patriarchs in the Russian tradition and the contexts of their reception / Cornelia Soldat -- The Old Testament "apocrypha" in early Russian drama / Marina Swoboda -- Zu einer Rohfassung der Polnaja Chronografi|ceskaja Paleja und zum Verhl̃tnis zwischen den verschiedenen Paleja-Redaktionen / Evgenij G. Vodolazkin.