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Ancient Texts for New Testament Studies: A Guide to the Background Literature is unavailable, but you can change that!

One of the most daunting challenges facing the New Testament interpreter is achieving a familiarity with the immense corpus of related literatures. Scholars and students must have a fundamental understanding of the content, provenance, and utility for New Testament interpretation of a wide range of pagan, Jewish, and diversely Christian documents. This volume examines a vast range of ancient...

only in the Greek version (the LXX), and placed them at the end of the original Hebrew Esther as 10:4–16:24 (which is followed by the Rheims and Douay edition), thus confusing the chronological sequence. The order of the LXX, which contains the translation of the original Hebrew, as well as the Greek additions, is as follows: (1) Addition 1 (11:2–12:6); (2) Hebrew 1:1–3:13; (3) Addition 2 (13:1–7); (4) Hebrew 3:14–4:17; (5) Addition 3 (13:8–14:19); (6) Hebrew 5:1–2 (= Addition 4 [15:1–2]); (7) Addition
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