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The Jewish Pseudepigrapha: An Introduction to the Literature of the Second Temple Period is unavailable, but you can change that!

This is a concise yet comprehensive guide to the Pseudepigrapha: the Jewish texts of the late Second Temple Period (ca. 250 BC–100 AD) that are not included in the Hebrew Bible or standard collections of the Apocrypha. Each chapter deals with a specific literary genre (such as apocalyptic, testaments, and “rewritten Bible”), encouraging readers to appreciate the texts as literature as well as...

The religion of Judaism is renowned for its literary output, and is particularly closely associated with the books of the Hebrew Bible and the later rabbinic literature. In addition, the media has brought to public attention in recent decades the important discovery of a large cache of ancient scrolls in caves at Qumran in the vicinity of the Dead Sea, while the works of the first-century authors Philo and Josephus have long served as important sources
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