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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...

(1) Apocalyptic Literature, (2) Testaments, (3) Old Testament Expansions, (4) Wisdom and Philosophical Literature, (5) Prayers, Psalms, and Odes, and (6) Fragments, with an appendix. . First Enoch, also known as the Ethiopic Apocalypse of Enoch, is the oldest of the three pseudepigraphal books attributed to Enoch, the man who apparently did not die, but was taken up to heaven (Gen 5:24). The book was originally written in either Hebrew or Aramaic, perhaps both,
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