Introducing the Apocrypha : message, context, and significance /
David A. deSilva.
- 428 páginas ; 24 centímetros
Bibliografía : páginas 381-395.
1. the value of the apocrypha -- 2. Historical context: "The yoke of the Gentiles" -- 3. Tobit: "Better is almsgiving with justice" -- 4. Judith: "hear me also, a widow" -- 5. Additions to Esther: "The aid of the all-seeing God and savior" -- 6. Wisdom of Solomon: "the righteous live forever" -- 7. Wisdom of Ben Sira: "in all wisdom there is the doing of the Torah" -- 8. Baruch: "return with tenfold zeal to God" -- 9. Letter of Jeremiah: "They are not Gods, so do not fear them" -- 10. Additions to Daniel: "Let them know that you alone are God" -- 11. 1 Maccabees: "the family through which deliverance was given" -- 12. 2 Maccabees: "there is some power of God about the place" -- 13. 1 Esdras: "leave to us a root and a name" -- 14. Prayer of Manasseh: "the God of those who repent" -- Psalm 151: "he made me shepherd of his flock" -- 3 Maccabees: "blessed be the deliverer of Israel" -- 17. 2 Esdras: "the mighty one has not forgotten" -- 18. 4 Maccabees: "noble is the contest".
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Biblia.--Crítica, interpretación, Libros deuterocanónicos.