Exploring Jewish Literature of the Second Temple Period
Subtitle: A Guide for New Testament Students (Christian Classics Bible Studies)
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Published: September 2002
Place of publication: Downers, Grove, IL
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 528
ISBN-13: 9780830826780
Subjects: Jewish authors; O.T; History; Bible - Criticism  Interpretation - New Testament; Religion; Religion - Commentaries / Reference; Judaism - Sacred Writings; Judaism; History and criticism; Biblical Criticism & Interpretation - New Testament; Bible; Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D; Apocrypha; Apocryphal books; Criticism, interpretation, etc; Greek literature
First sentence: In our introduction we surveyed the landmark events that shaped the era of the Second Temple.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The rise of the Second Commonwealth; title: Tales from the Diaspora; title: Hellenism invades the Middle East; title: Apocalypticism : hope for hard times; title: Resistance literature; title: The Dead Sea Scrolls : the new-covenant community; title: The Dead Sea Scrolls : Scripture & the end times; title: "Down in Egypt land"; title: Philo Judaeus; title: Flavius Josephus : the house that Herod built; title: Coping with calamity; title: The reconstruction of Judaism; title: The world of Mishnah; title: The partings of the ways