Ancient Israelite and early Jewish literature.9004124276 Ancient Israelite and early Jewish literature Jewish literature: see Hebrew literature. . Vriezen, T.C. and A.S. van der Woude. Trans. by Brian Doyle
Brian J. Doyle (born April 7, 1950) was the deputy press secretary for the United States Department of Homeland Security. . Brill Brill or Bril, Flemish painters, brothers. Mattys Brill (mä`tīs), 1550–83, went to Rome early in his career and executed frescoes for Gregory XIII in the Vatican. Academic Publishers 2005 766 pages $149.00 Hardcover BS1140 Vriezen (d. 1981) and van der Woude (d. 2000) introduce the books of the Hebrew bible, and other texts of Early Judaism primarily from a literary and historical-critical perspective, though because of the nature of the material, some religio-historical and theological discussion necessary creeps in. They begin by reviewing the sources of the literature, its ancient Near East context, and its authors and authorship. Then they consider the Old Testament in such terms as the literary genres, dating, the prophetic literature, and The Writings. They also examine the apocrypha, pseudepigrapha Pseudepigrapha (s  'dĭpĭ`grəfə) [Gr.,=things falsely ascribed], a collection of early Jewish and some Jewish-Christian writings composed between c.200 B.C. and c.A.D. , and the Dead Sea
Scrolls Dead Sea Scrolls, ancient leather and papyrus scrolls first discovered in 1947 in caves on the NW shore of the Dead Sea. Most of the documents were written or copied between the 1st cent. B.C. and the first half of the 1st cent. A.D. . Brian Doyle translates the 2000 tenth edition of the Dutch
Oud-Israelitische en vroeg-joodse literatuur, published by J. H. Kok.
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