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Introduction to the Intertestamental Period (1975) is a book by Raymond F. Surburg.

Abstract

Editions

Published in St. Louis, MO: Concordia Pub. House, 1975.

Translations

• Sin-Kuyak chunggansa (1984 Surburg / Kim), book (Korean ed.)

Table of contents

The historical background. The Jews under Persian rule ; The Jews and Alexander the Great ; The Ptolemies and the Jews ; The Jews under the Seleucids ; The Jews under the Maccabees ; The Jews under the Hasmoneans ; The Jews under the Romans (63 B.C.-A.D. 135) -- The religious background. The religious sects of Judaism ; Theological teachings of the intertestamental period -- Jewish literature of the intertestamental period. The translation of the Hebrew Old Testament into Greek ; The literature from the Dead Sea caves ; The Apocrypha ; The individual books of the Apocrypha ; Introduction to the pseudepigraphical literature ; The individual pseudepigrapha ; Philo and his writings ; Josephus and his writings.

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