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...

resided outside the ancestral homeland. Just how extensive the Diaspora was may be grasped by Luke’s description of the Jewish pilgrims who were present on the Day of Pentecost (Acts 2:8–11). But even the minority who lived in the Holy Land did so under the domination of a foreign power and thus under exilic conditions. To be sure, not all Jews would have viewed the situation in quite the same way. For example, the Sadducees, with their vested interest in the temple and its rituals, were probably

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