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 / - Downers, Grove, Ill. : InterVarsity Press, ©2002. - 528 Pages. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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 & 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.

0830826785 (pbk. : alk. paper)

2002019703


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


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

BS1700 / .H43 2002

296.1