Exploring Jewish Literature of the Second Temple Period: A Guide for New Testament Students (Biblia.com)

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From the crisis of the Babylonian exile to the rise of rabbinic Judaism--a span of over six hundred years--the Jewish people produced a wealth of literature that lies outside the Hebrew Bible. Today it goes under names such as apocrypha and pseudepigrapha, Josephus and Philo, apocalyptic literature and the Dead Sea Scrolls, Mishnah and targums. But line by line, scroll by scroll, it represents...

Each of these crises produced great trauma and required Jews to adapt to new circumstances. It is a testament to their indomitable spirit and to God’s faithfulness that they did persevere. They are survivors. The Jewish literature of the Second Temple period is a sizable corpus—considerably larger than the Bible. It is also a bit daunting because no anthology brings all these diverse strands together. First, one must acquire a copy of the Apocrypha (unless one has an edition of the Bible

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