Jewish Literature between the Bible and the Mishnah.Jewish Literature Jewish literature: see Hebrew literature. between the Bible and the Mishnah. By George W. Nickelsburg (Fortress, 29). This is the best introduction to the literature of the intertestamental period (325 B.C.E. to 100 C.E), and in this second edition N. has included several more works from the apocrypha 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. and completely updated the bibliography. This edition comes with a CDRom that allows searching of the text and contains 100 pictures and a study guide. This literature shows the lively character of the various kinds of Judaism in the New Testament period and of course supplies indispensable background to many of the New Testament's ideas (e.g., son of man, messiah, apocalyptic, exegetical ex·e·get·ic also ex·e·get·i·cal adj. Of or relating to exegesis; critically explanatory. ex methods). RWK RWK Rework RWK Race War Kingdoms (online game) |
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