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Introducing the Apocrypha: Message, Context, and Significance (Second Edition) is unavailable, but you can change that!

This comprehensive, up-to-date introduction to the Old Testament apocryphal books summarizes their context, message, and significance. It is the most substantial introduction to the Apocrypha available and has become a standard authority on the topic. The new edition has been substantially revised and updated throughout to reflect the latest scholarship.

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
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