Exploring Jewish Literature of the Second Temple Period : A Guide for New Testament Students - Helyer, Larry R. (Downers, Grove, Ill. : InterVarsity Press, 2002)
The rise of the Second Commonwealth -- Tales from the Diaspora -- Hellenism invades the Middle East -- Apocalypticism : hope for hard times -- Resistance literature -- The Dead Sea Scrolls : the new-covenant community -- The Dead Sea Scrolls : Scripture & the end times -- "Down in Egypt land" -- Philo Judaeus -- Flavius Josephus : the house that Herod built -- Coping with calamity -- The reconstruction of Judaism -- The world of Mishnah -- The partings of the ways.
Keywords: Bible. Apocrypha Criticism, interpretation, etc..Bible. New Testament Criticism, interpretation, etc..Greek literature Jewish authors History and criticism..