Books in the Cambridge Commentaries on Writings of the Jewish and Christian World series

This book aims to introduce the work of Hellenistic Jewish writers of the period 200 BC to AD 200.

This book provides a new translation of substantial extracts from the Qumran writings, which comprise an important part of the Dead Sea scrolls. In addition to selecting the most significant legislative, poetic and liturical writings, Professor Knibb provides a commentary dealing with major interpretative problems revised by the extracts.

Rabbinic texts are often cited in New Testament and Old Testament studies, but hitherto there has been no easy way for a student to grasp the scope and variety of the relevant rabbinic writings. This book introduces the student to the full range of the early rabbinic writings.

Leading scholars provide a commentary on various important early texts of the Jewish world outside the Old Testament, in a volume accessible to students and teachers alike.

The aim of this book is to give access to sources which illustrate Graeco-Roman views on Jews and Christians from 200 BC to AD 200. Passages range from longer extracts written by historians to short incidental references by disparate authors which throw light on attitudes towards beliefs and social customs.

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.

An extremely important Jewish writer and thinker of the first century AD, Philo of Alexandria exercised through his ideas and language a lasting influence on the development and growth of Christianity in the New Testament period and later.