Joseph and Aseneth

Edith M Humphrey

• Paperback | Engels | Guides to the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha
• This volume is a comprehensive but accessible guide to the major questions raised by the Hellenistic Jewish work, Joseph and Aseneth. Joseph and Asene... Lees meer

1 Maccabees

John R Bartlett

• Paperback | Engels | Guides to the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha | nr. 5
• This is a book for anyone interested in the political and cultural results of the entry of the small state of Judah and its capital Jerusalem into the... Lees meer

Sirach

• Paperback | Engels | Guides to the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha | nr. 6
• Sirach is a book that raises a very distinctive set of problems. What should we call it (Sirach, Ecclesiasticus, Ben Sira)? What is the relation betwe... Lees meer

Tobit and Judith

Benedikt Otzen

• Paperback | Engels | Guides to the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha | nr. 11
• Part of the popular textbook series introducing key themes and issues of books of the Apocrypha and Jewish Pseudepigrapha. The two apochryphal books, ... Lees meer

Life of Adam and Eve and Related Literature

Marinus De Jonge, Johannes Tromp

• Paperback | Engels | Guides to the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha | nr. 7
• The Life of Adam and Eve once belonged to the most popular literature in the Christian world. Retelling the Genesis 3 story, it gives an elaborate des... Lees meer

Ascension of Isaiah

John M Court

• Paperback | Engels | Guides to the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha | nr. 2
• The Ascension of Isaiah is an important but neglected apocalypse from the early second century CE. Its author wrote at a time when charismatic prophec... Lees meer

Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs

Robert Kugler

• Paperback | Engels | Guides to the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha
• The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs is of especial interest to students of early Judaism and Christianity, though this importance is not always re... Lees meer

Book of Jubilees

James VanderKam

• Paperback | Engels | Guides to the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha
• The Book of Jubilees, a Jewish retelling of Genesis and the first half of Exodus, was an important work for the community of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Thi... Lees meer

4 Maccabees

David Desilva

• Paperback | Engels | Guides to the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha | nr. 7
• Hellenistic Greek society offered many advantages to the Jew who was willing to relax Torah for the sake of easier relations with the dominant culture... Lees meer