George W. E. Nickelsburg

4 Ezra and 2 Baruch

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Sisters of a sort, two ancient texts express their authors' intellectual puzzlement and emotional anguish over the destruction of their mother city and the demolition of its sanctuary. Two modern scholars—as schooled in these texts as anyone—present them in crisp and clear translation with incisive introductions, inviting us to wonder what in our very different world is new under the sun.”

From Joshua to Caiaphas

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“VanderKam shows how to sustain a historical narrative while presenting the detailed exegesis and nuanced judgments that inform and support it. His meticulous research brings to life in their contexts the influential personages who populate the world of the Apocrypha, the Dead Sea Scrolls, the New Testament, and Josephus and provides fresh insights and historical refinements for students of Second Temple Judaism and first-century Christianity. A Mature piece of historical analysis.”

Mind the Gap

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“With a mastery of the sources in the Hebrew Bible, Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha, Dead Sea Scrolls, and New Testament and their scholarly treatment, Matthias Henze demonstrates how Israelite religion was transformed in the Greco-Roman period and how the four evangelists depict Jesus of Nazareth as a child of that transformation.”

Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, vol. 1

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“In our study of early Judaism and early Christianity we have been spoiled by large corpora of texts, but we seldom consider that these preserve only a portion of what was actually written (or orally composed). Here brought together in one place for the first time, and translated and discussed with the best scholarship, is a collection of texts and text fragments that provide a peek into that broader, unknown world.”