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Klappentext The introductory material leads naturally into the text which itself leads into alternating sections of commentary. Zusammenfassung The three general editors of the Cambridge Bible Commentary series have all! in their teaching! experienced a lack of readily usable texts of the literature which is often called psuedepigrapha but which is more accurately defined as extra-biblical or parabiblical literature. The aim of this series is to help fill this gap. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Author's Foreword; Abbreviations; Maps; Part I; 1. Historical Outline: Exile, Restoration and Diaspora; 2. Diaspora: The Historical Background; 3. Italy: Rome and the Jews; 4. Syria, Phoenicia, Judaea, Egypt, Cyrene; 5. The Jewish Diaspora and Roman Empire in Later Centuries; Part I; 6. The Synagogue; 7. Law, Prophets and Writings; 8. Greek Versions, Apocrypha and Psuedepigrapha; 9. The Qumran Writings; 10. Early Rabbinic Judaism; 11. Christian Writings; 12. Writers, other than Jewish or Christian in the Roman Empire 200 BC to AD 200; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.