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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Downers, Grove, Ill. : InterVarsity Press, c2002.Description: 528 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0830826785 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 296.1 21 H369ex
LOC classification:
  • BS 1700 .H43 2002
Contents:
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.

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.

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