Rellevància de la literatura no canònica jueva en els segles I-IV dC.

The article seeks to answer the question as to when and how opposition to non-canonicalliterature arose within official Judaism. While it is impossible to be preciseabout the chronology, it is not risking too much to suppose that it is the appearanceof Gnosticizing positions among the first rabbis or in occasional Tannaitic writingsthat prompts the first cries of alarm. These will increase with the developmentof the Gnostic schools, the proliferation of apocalyptic-eschatological literatureor the appearance of the New Testament writings. Jahvne is highly significant inthe exclusion of Jewish literature from ‘outside’ and, as a result, in the definitivecanonization of the biblical books. What is more, Jahvne and the later tannaimwill exclude from synagogal reading not only the books from ‘outside’ but also theheretical books. Among the former are counted all the books of an ‘apocalyptic’ tendency.The word ‘apocalytic’ ( גליונים ) to refer to a literary genre makes its appearancegradually in the official Jewish literature; it is a word borrowed from Syriac whereit is found in abundance (as A. Kulik points out). The rabbinic and official attitudeof rejecting apocalyptic-eschatological literature is very much the opposite of whatis found in certain Pharisaic (and non-Pharisaic) circles which are attached to thiskind of writing. The love of these writings, as well as the desire to preserve them,are equally in evidence when, even though their origin was in Jewish tendencies,they are received and preserved by the Christian community, which regards themas spiritual nourishment.