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Jewish writings from the period of Second Temple present a rich and potentially overwhelming variety of first-hand materials. George W. E. Nickelsburg and Michael E. Stone, experts on this formative period, have updated their classic sourcebook on Jewish beliefs and practices to take into account current thinking about the sources and to include new documents—including texts from Qumran not...

2 1 “Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of fraud and rapine.” This alludes to the city of Ephraima—to those “seekers after smooth things” who, in the latter days, will walk in fraud and lies. “The prey departs not, nor do the crack of the whip, the whir of wheels, the prancing horses, the bounding chariots, the charging horsemen, the flashing [sword], the glittering spear, the multitude of slain, the great
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