Introduction to the intertestamental period
By: Raymond F. Surburg.
Publisher: Concordia Publishing House
Published: 1975
Place of publication: St. Louis; London
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 197
Subjects: Bible. O.T. Apocrypha -- Introductions.; Judaism -- History -- Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D.; Apocryphal books (Old Testament) -- Introductions.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 177-197.
Table of contents: title: Part one : The historical background.; title: Introduction; title: The Jews under Persian rule; title: The Jews and Alexander the Great; title: The Ptolemies and the Jews; title: The Jews under the Seleucids; title: The Jews under the Maccabees; title: The Jews under the Hasmoneans; title: The Jews under the Romans (63 B.C.-A.D. 135); title: Part two : The religious background.; title: The religious sects of Judaism; title: Theological teachings of the intertestamental period; title: Part three : Jewish literature of the intertestamental period.; title: The translation of the Hebrew Old Testament into Greek; title: The literature from the Dead Sea caves; title: The Apocrypha; title: The individual books of the Apocrypha; title: Introduction to the pseudepigraphical literature; title: The individual pseudepigrapha; title: Philo and his writings; title: Josephus and his writings