Exploring Jewish Literature of the Second Temple Period: A Guide for New Testament Students
Biblical scholar Larry R. Helyer introduces New Testament students to the rich body of non-canonical Jewish writings composed between the Babylonian exile and rabbinic Judaism. Surveying the Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha, Dead Sea Scrolls, Philo, and Josephus within their historical contexts, he illuminates the religious world of Jesus, Paul, and earliest Christianity.