Literature of the Second Temple Period and Late Antiquity

MEDIATOR FIGURES ANNOTATED BASIC BIBLIOGRAPHY

0.2 ON THE LITERATURE OF THE SECOND TEMPLE PERIOD AND LATE ANTIQUITY

P. S. Alexander, "Incantations and Books of Magic," in Sch<"u>rer, _History_ (see below) III.1, 342-79

John J. Collins, _The Apocalyptic Imagination: An Introduction to the Jewish Matrix of Christianity_ (New York: Crossroad, 1984)

Stevan L. Davies, _The Gospel of Thomas and Christian Wisdom_ (New York: Seabury, 1983)

Martha Himmelfarb, _Ascent to Heaven in Jewish and Christian Apocalypses_ (New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993)

Martha Himmelfarb, _Tours of Hell: An Apocalyptic Form in Jewish and Christian Literature_ (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1983)

Robert A. Kraft and George W. E. Nickelsburg (eds.), _Early Judaism and Its Modern Interpreters_ (The Bible and Its Modern Interpreters 2; Atlanta, Ga.: Scholars Press, 1986)

George W. E. Nickelsburg, _Jewish Literature Between the Bible and the Mishnah: A Historical and Literary Introduction_ (London: SCM, 1981)

Simone P<'e>trement, _A Separate God: The Christian Origins of Gnosticism_ (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1990)

Kurt Rudolph, _Gnosis: The Nature and History of Gnosticism_ (San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1987)

Emil Sch<"u>rer, _The History of the Jewish People in the Age of Jesus Christ (175 B.C.-A.D. 135)_, vol. III, parts 1-2, revised edition ed. Geza Vermes, Fergus Millar, and Martin Goodman (Edinburgh: Clark, 1986)

Alan F. Segal, "Heavenly Ascent in Hellenistic Judaism, Early Christianity and their Environment," _ANRW_ 2.23.2 1333-94

Michael E. Stone (ed.), _Jewish Writings of the Second Temple Period: Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha, Qumran Sectarian Writings, Philo, Josephus_ (CRINT 2.2; Philadelphia: Fortress, 1984)

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