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| Preface | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| Maps | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Approach and Method | |
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| Problems and Perspective | |
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| Corpus | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Prologue: Exile-Return-Dispersion | |
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| Destruction and Exile | |
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| Return and Restoration | |
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| Dispersion | |
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| Summary | |
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| Tales of the Dispersion | |
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| Daniel 1-6 | |
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| Additions to the Book of Daniel | |
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| Susanna | |
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| Bel and the Serpent | |
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| The Prayer of Azariah and the Song of the Three Young Men | |
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| The Story of Darius's Bodyguards (1 Esdras 3-4) | |
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| Tobit | |
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| The Epistle of Jeremiah | |
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| Palestine in the Wake of Alexander the Great | |
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| The Overlords of Palestine | |
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| Early Hellenization in Palestine | |
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| Literature Attributed to Enoch | |
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| The Book of the Luminaries (1 Enoch 72-82) | |
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| The Book of the Watchers (1 Enoch 1-36) | |
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| The Apocalyptic Worldview of 1 Enoch | |
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| The Wisdom of Ben Sira (Sirach or Ecclesiasticus) | |
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| Reform-Repression-Revolt | |
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| The Events | |
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| A Response in Apocalyptic Literature | |
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| The Book of Jubilees | |
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| The Testament of Moses | |
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| Daniel 7-12 | |
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| The Composition of Daniel 1-12 | |
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| The Animal Vision (1 Enoch 83-90) | |
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| Summary | |
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| The Hasmoneans and Their Opponents | |
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| From Judas to Alexandra | |
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| Baruch | |
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| Judith | |
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| 1 Maccabees | |
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| 2 Maccabees | |
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| The Epistle of Enoch (1 Enoch 92-105) | |
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| Possible Stages in the Literary Development of 1 Enoch | |
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| The People at Qumran and Their Predecessors | |
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| Scrolls from the Dead Sea Caves | |
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| The Damascus Document | |
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| Pesharim | |
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| Continuous Commentaries | |
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| The Habakkuk Commentary | |
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| A Commentary on Psalms | |
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| The Nahum Commentary | |
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| A Commentary on Isaiah | |
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| Florilegium (1Q174), Melchizedek (11Q13), Testimonia (4Q175): Three Thematic Exegetical Texts | |
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| The Thanksgiving Hymns | |
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| Hymns of the Teacher | |
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| Hymns of the Community | |
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| The Rule of the Community | |
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| The War Scroll | |
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| A Halakic Letter (4QMMT) | |
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| The Rule of the Congregation (1QSa) | |
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| Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice (The Angelic Liturgy) | |
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| The Temple Scroll | |
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| The Aramaic Levi Document | |
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| An Unusual Psalms Scroll (11QPs[superscript a]) | |
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| A Davidic Psalter | |
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| Psalm 151 | |
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| Psalms of the Pious | |
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| Instruction for a Student (4QInstruction) | |
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| The Genesis Apocryphon | |
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| The New Jerusalem | |
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| Summary | |
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| Israel in Egypt | |
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| The Greek Jewish Scriptures-the So-called Septuagint | |
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| The Sibylline Oracles, Book 3 | |
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| Aristeas to Philocrates | |
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| 3 Maccabees | |
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| Additions to the Book of Esther | |
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| The Wisdom of Solomon | |
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| Philo of Alexandria | |
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| 2 Enoch | |
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| The Romans and the House of Herod | |
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| The Hasmoneans Give Way to Rome | |
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| Herod the Great | |
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| The House of Herod | |
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| The Roman Governors of Judea | |
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| Agrippa I | |
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| Domination-Opposition-Expectation | |
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| The Psalms of Solomon | |
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| Psalms of the Nation | |
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| Psalms of the Righteous and the Pious | |
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| Date and Provenance | |
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| The Testament of Moses-Revised | |
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| The Parables of Enoch (1 Enoch 37-71) | |
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| The Unfolding Drama | |
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| Date and Provenance | |
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| 4 Maccabees | |
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| Revolt-Destruction-Reconstruction | |
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| The Events | |
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| The Book of Biblical Antiquities (Pseudo-Philo) | |
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| Three Apocalyptic Responses to the Fall of Jerusalem | |
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| 4 Ezra | |
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| 2 Baruch | |
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| The Relationship between 4 Ezra and 2 Baruch | |
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| The Apocalypse of Abraham | |
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| Flavius Josephus | |
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| Josephus's Life and Career | |
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| Josephus's Writings | |
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| The History of the Jewish War | |
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| The Jewish Antiquities | |
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| The Life | |
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| Against Apion | |
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| Texts of Disputed Provenance | |
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| The Problem | |
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| The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs | |
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| The Testament of Reuben concerning Thoughts | |
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| The Testament of Simeon concerning Envy | |
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| The Testament of Levi concerning Priesthood and Arrogance | |
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| The Testament of Judah concerning Courage, the Love of Money, and Fornication | |
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| The Testament of Issachar concerning Simplicity | |
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| The Testament of Asher concerning the Two Faces of Vice and Virtue | |
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| The Testament of Joseph concerning Self-Control | |
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| Summary | |
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| Christian Provenance | |
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| The Testament of Job | |
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| The Testament of Abraham | |
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| The Life of Adam and Eve | |
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| The Greek Life of Adam and Eve | |
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| The Latin Life of Adam and Eve | |
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| Joseph and Aseneth | |
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| The Prayer of Manasseh | |
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| Summary | |
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| Notes | |
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| Charts | |
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| Major Figures in the Seleucid Dynasty | |
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| The Hasmonean House | |
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| The House of Herod | |
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| Index of Subjects | |
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| Index of Modern Authors | |