Contents for volumes I and II
Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Part One: Introduction and survey of scholarship
Part Two: Contexts of Second Temple Judaism
1. The Conquests of Alexander (332-323 B.C.E.)
2. The Diadochi (323-301 B.C.E.)
3. The Egyptian Ptolemies (301-198 B.C.E.)
4. The Syrian Seleucids (198-167 B.C.E.)
5. The Maccabean Revolt and the Hasmonean Dynasty (166-63 B.C.E.)
6. The Romans from Pompey to Hadrian (63 B.C.E.-135 C.E.)
Part Three: The Literature of Second Temple Judaism A-Z
Part Four: Topics - Second Temple Judaism A-Z
Timeline
Glossary
Annotated bibliography

Daniel M. Gurtner is Professor of New Testament at Gateway Seminary in Ontario, California, USA.
Loren T. Stuckenbruck is Professor of New Testament (with a specialization in Second Temple Judaism) at Ludwig Maximilian-University of Munich, Germany.

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