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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...

than Jubilees, as will be seen in the discussion below of the Biblical Antiquities. At the heart of the Book of Jubilees lies the theme of God’s covenant relationship with the people of Israel. This special bond is traced right back to the time of creation, when God is depicted as saying to the angels: ‘I shall separate for myself a people from among all the nations. And they will be my people and I will be their God’ (2.19). This covenant is first made with Noah (6.4),
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