Introducing the Apocrypha : message, context, and significance / David A. deSilva ; foreword by James H. Charlesworth.
Publication details: Grand Rapids, Mich. : Baker Academic, c2002. Description: 428 p. ; 24 cmISBN: 080102319XSubject(s): Bible. O.T. Apocrypha. -- Criticism, interpretation, etcDDC classification: 229.061 LOC classification: .D44 2002| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 381-395) and indexes.
1. Introduction: The Value of the Apocrypha 15 --
2. Historical Context: "The Yoke of the Gentiles" 42 --
3. Tobit: "Better Is Almsgiving with Justice" 63 --
4. Judith: "Hear Me Also, a Widow" 85 --
5. Additions to Esther: "The Aid of the All-Seeing God and Savior" 110 --
6. Wisdom of Solomon: "The Righteous Live Forever" 127 --
7. Wisdom of Ben Sira: "In All Wisdom There Is the Doing of Torah" 153 --
8. Baruch: "Return with Tenfold Zeal to Seek God" 198 --
9. Letter of Jeremiah: "They Are Not Gods, So Do Not Fear Them" 214 --
10. Additions to Daniel: "Let Them Know That You Alone Are God" 222 --
11. 1 Maccabees: "The Family through Which Deliverance Was Given" 244 --
12. 2 Maccabees: "There Is Some Power of God about the Place" 266 --
13. 1 Esdras: "Leave to Us a Root and a Name" 280 --
14. Prayer of Manasseh: "The God of Those Who Repent" 296 --
15. Psalm 151: "He Made Me Shepherd of His Flock" 301 --
16. 3 Maccabees: "Blessed Be the Deliverer of Israel" 304 --
17. 2 Esdras: "The Mighty One Has Not Forgotten" 323 --
18. 4 Maccabees: "Noble Is the Contest" 352.
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