TY  - BOOK
AU  - Surburg,Raymond F.
TI  - Introduction to the intertestamental period
SN  - 0570032377
U1  - 296.09 Surburg 
PY  - 1975///
CY  - St. Louis
PB  - Concordia Publishing House
KW  - Bible
KW  - Apocrypha
KW  - Introductions
KW  - Judaism
KW  - History
KW  - Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D
KW  - Apocryphal books (Old Testament)
N1  - Bibliography: pages 177-197; Part one : The historical background. Introduction -- 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) -- Part two : The religious background. The religious sects of Judaism -- Theological teachings of the intertestamental period -- Part three : 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
ER  -