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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.

is the cause of all the moral ills of the Gentile world. The correspondences between their lists of these vices are notable. Similarly, Paul’s argument for God’s sovereignty over human beings in Romans 9:19–24 reiterates the similar claims of Wisdom of Solomon concerning the impossibility of the creature condemning the actions of the Creator, even using the same image of the potter’s rights over the pot (Wis. 12:12; 15:7). Paul also shares the image of the body as the earthly tent, a perishable thing
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