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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...

The details of the life of the Judeans in Babylon can be partially reconstructed from various biblical texts such as Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Ezra, Nehemiah, and Daniel.3 While the preponderance of Judean and Israelite exiles were sent to the east to Assyria and Babylon, an important minority went into exile in the west to Egypt. Chief among this group at an early stage was the prophet Jeremiah. It is likely that out of this group a later prominent Jewish community emerged in Egypt, which
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