literary genre (of which Dan. 7–12 and Revelation are the only fully developed canonical examples), and as an expression of Judaism’s solution to the destruction of the temple: renewed interest in Torah. At this point it is proper to admit that this way of delineating the collection of the Apocrypha is somewhat artificial. Indeed, defining where “Apocrypha” ends and “other early Jewish literature” begins has always been a problem. This is reflected as early as the three great Christian manuscripts