Ancient texts for New Testament studies: a guide to the background literature

Introduction

The Old Testament Apocrypha

The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha

The Dead Sea scrolls

Versions of the Old Testament

Philo and Josephus

The Targums

Rabbinic literature

The New Testament Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha

Early church fathers

Gnostic writings

Other writings

Examples of New Testament exegesis

Appendixes. Canons of Scripture that include the Apocrypha ; Quotations, allusions, and parallels to the New Testament ; Parallels between New Testament gospels and pseudepigraphal gospels ; Jesus' parables and the parables of the rabbis ; Jesus and Jewish miracle stories ; Messianic claimants of the first and second centuries.