Presents eighteen commissioned articles on biblical exegesis in early Judaism, covering the period after the Hebrew Bible was written and before the beginning o

Although Jewish tradition gives tremendous importance to the Hebrew Bible, from the beginning Jewish interpretation of those scriptures has been practiced with

This volume features an impressive array of leading biblical scholars and presents an illuminating and lively cross-section of this traditional field of study.

This book provides the first complete guide for students to the present state of biblical studies. The twenty-one specially commissioned chapters are written by

This collection of articles dedicated to Michael E. Stone contains cutting-edge studies on apocrypha and pseudepigrapha, the Dead Sea Scrolls, early Judaism, an