Exploring Jewish literature of the Second Temple period : a guide for New Testament students /

Helyer, Larry R,

Exploring Jewish literature of the Second Temple period : a guide for New Testament students / [print] Larry R. Helyer. - Downers, Grove, Illinois : InterVarsity Press, (c)2002. - 528 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.



The rise of the Second Commonwealth -- Tales from the Diaspora -- Hellenism invades the Middle East -- Apocalypticism : hope for hard times -- Resistance literature -- The Dead Sea Scrolls : the new-covenant community -- The Dead Sea Scrolls : Scripture and the end times -- "Down in Egypt land" -- Philo Judaeus -- Flavius Josephus : the house that Herod built -- Coping with calamity -- The reconstruction of Judaism -- The world of Mishnah -- The partings of the ways.



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Bible.--Apocrypha--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Dead Sea scrolls.


Apocryphal books--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Greek literature--Jewish authors--History and criticism.
Judaism--History--Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D.
Judaism and literature--Greece.

BS1700 BS1700.H486.E975 2002