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...

dissolved and vows taken that none would be contracted in the future (Ezra 9–10). One of the most memorable events of Ezra’s tenure is recorded in Nehemiah 8. Ezra assembled the people in the square before the house of the Lord and read to them from the law “from early morning until midday” (Neh 8:1–8; cf. 9:3). Commitment to the Mosaic law as its basic constitution characterized postexilic Judaism. Controversy over the law would arise, but it would always be a question of the interpretation of the

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