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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 seven sections of 1 Enoch represent the evolving phases of the Enochic corpus, which may or may not have been originally written in this order.3 As a collection, 1 Enoch offers the reader a glimpse of what was likely a common worldview during the later Second Temple period, which identified the world as an evil and unjust place in which the Jewish people awaited the redemption of God in their eschatological world. The author4 of 1 Enoch is pseudepigraphically identified as the patriarchal figure
Volume 2, Page 179
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