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...

became known as the Maccabees. The term Maccabee may have meant something like “the hammer” or “mallet head,” a descriptive epithet for the violent blows of this family against the Seleucid dynasty. They were also known as the Hasmoneans.2 Under the leadership of this family, the Jewish people achieved a period of national independence that lasted until 63 B.C. The narration of these stirring events is straightforward and generally quite trustworthy.3 One purpose of this historical narrative

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