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Early Jewish Literature: An Anthology offers more than seventy selections from Second Temple-era Jewish literature, each introduced and translated by a leading scholar in the field. Organized by genre, this two-volume anthology presents both complete works and substantial excerpts of longer works, giving readers a solid introduction to the major works of the era—the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Old...

Exod. 1:11; 1 Kings 5:13). From this point of view, the Modern Hebrew translations of 1 Maccabees are also valuable insofar as they aspire, with the help of modern scholarship concerning Septuagintal usage, to recover the original text. Next to nothing is known of the sources of either book. First Maccabees ends with an allusion to the annals of Jonathan Hyrcanus I’s high priesthood (“Now the rest of the acts of John, his wars and the brave deeds he performed, his rebuilding of the walls, and all
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