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Introducing the Apocrypha - Message, Context, and Significance David A. Desilva

Introducing the Apocrypha - Message, Context, and Significance By David A. Desilva

Introducing the Apocrypha - Message, Context, and Significance by David A. Desilva


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This comprehensive, up-to-date introduction to the Old Testament apocryphal books summarizes their context, message, and significance. Now substantially revised and updated throughout.

Introducing the Apocrypha - Message, Context, and Significance Summary

Introducing the Apocrypha - Message, Context, and Significance by David A. Desilva

This comprehensive, up-to-date introduction to the Old Testament apocryphal books summarizes their context, message, and significance. The first edition has been very well reviewed and widely adopted. It is the most substantial introduction to the Apocrypha available and has become a standard authority on the topic. The second edition has been substantially revised and updated throughout to reflect the latest scholarship. The book includes a foreword by James H. Charlesworth.

About David A. Desilva

David A. deSilva (PhD, Emory University) is Trustees' Distinguished Professor of New Testament and Greek at Ashland Theological Seminary in Ashland, Ohio. He is the bestselling author of more than 25 books, including An Introduction to the New Testament, and has been involved in several major Bible translation projects.

Table of Contents

Contents
Foreword by James H. Charlesworth
Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the First Edition
1. Introduction: The Value of the Apocrypha
2. Historical Context: The Yoke of the Gentiles
3. Tobit: Better Is Almsgiving with Justice
4. Judith: Hear Me Also, a Widow
5. Greek Esther: The Aid of the All-Seeing God and Savior
6. Wisdom of Solomon: The Righteous Live Forever
7. Wisdom of Ben Sira: In All Wisdom There Is the Doing of Torah
8. Baruch: Return with Tenfold Zeal to Seek God
9. Letter of Jeremiah: They Are Not Gods, So Do Not Fear Them
10. Additions to Daniel: Let Them Know That You Alone Are God
11. 1 Maccabees: The Family through Which Deliverance Was Given
12. 2 Maccabees: There Is Some Power of God about the Place
13. 1 Esdras: Leave to Us a Root and a Name
14. Prayer of Manasseh: The God of Those Who Repent
15. Psalm 151: He Made Me Shepherd of His Flock
16. 3 Maccabees: Blessed Be the Deliverer of Israel!
17. 2 Esdras: The Mighty One Has Not Forgotten
18. 4 Maccabees: Noble Is the Contest
Indexes

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CIN080109741XG
9780801097416
080109741X
Introducing the Apocrypha - Message, Context, and Significance by David A. Desilva
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Baker Publishing Group
20180220
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