An internationally respected expert on the Second Temple period provides a fully up-to-date introduction to this crucial area of Biblical Studies. This introduction, by a world leader in the field, provides the perfect guide to the Second Temple Period, its history, literature, and religious setting. Lester Grabbe magisterially guides the reader through the period providing a careful overview of the most studied sources, the history surrounding them and the various currents within Judaism at the time. This book will be a core text for courses on the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha, as well as Qumran, Intertestamental Literature and Early Judaism.
- ISBN10 1282868497
- ISBN13 9781282868496
- Publish Date 1 January 2010
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 1 April 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint T & T Clark International
- Edition Revised ed.
- Format eBook
- Pages 150
- Language English