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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 Book of Jubilees retells the narrative of the book of Genesis and the early chapters of the book of Exodus, following the structure and wording of the biblical source very closely. It was composed in the middle of the second century BCE, somewhere between 160 and 130 BCE. This was a period of considerable political and religious turbulence in Palestine, when the Maccabees led a Jewish rebellion against the Seleucid ruler Antiochus IV Epiphanes. One
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