Targums and Rabbinic Literature

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Ancient Literature for New Testament Studies is a multivolume series that seeks to introduce key ancient texts that form the cultural, historical, and literary context for the study of the New Testament.

Each volume will feature introductory essays to the corpus, followed by articles on the relevant texts. Each article will address introductory matters, provenance, summary of content, interpretive issues, key passages for New Testament studies and their significance.

Neither too technical to be used by students nor too thin on interpretive information to be useful for serious study of the New Testament, this series provides a much-needed resource for understanding the New Testament in its first-century Jewish and Greco-Roman context. Produced by an international team of leading experts in each corpus, Ancient Literature for New Testament Studies stands to become the standard resource for both scholars and students.

Volumes include:

• Apocrypha and the Septuagint
• Old Testament Pseudepigrapha
• The Dead Sea Scrolls
• The Apostolic Fathers
• Philo and Josephus
• Greco-Roman Literature
• Targums and Early Rabbinic Literature
• Gnostic Literature
• New Testament Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha

Author Bio

Bruce Chilton is Bernard Iddings Bell Professor of Religion at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY. Alan J. Avery-Peck is Kraft-Hiatt Professor in Judaic Studies at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA. Craig A. Evans (PhD, Claremont; DHabil, Budapest) is the John Bisagno Distinguished Professor of Christian Origins at Houston Baptist University. Author and editor of more than ninety books and hundreds of articles and reviews, Evans has lectured at major universities worldwide and has regularly appeared on Dateline NBC, CBC, CTV, Day of Discovery, and in many documentaries aired on BBC, The Discovery Channel, History Channel, History Television, and National Geographic Channel speaking on the historical Jesus, the New Testament Gospels, archaeology, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the Bible. Cecilia Wassn associate professor of New Testament at Uppsala University, Sweden. Her research focuses on early Judaism, the early Jesus movement in its Jewish context, and women in the Dead Sea Scrolls.