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Horton, Fred L., Jr. The Melchizedek Tradition: A Critical Examination of the Sources to the Fifth Century A.D. and in the Epistle to the Hebrews Cambridge University Press, 1976
Evans, Craig A. "Luke and the Rewritten Bible: Aspects of Lukan Hagiography" in Charlesworth, James H., and Craig A. Evans (eds.) The Pseudepigrapha and Early Biblical Interpretation JSOT Press, 1993
Jones, Kenneth R. Jewish Reactions to the Destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70: Apocalypses and Related Pseudepigrapha Brill, 2011
Vermes, Geza Scripture and Tradition in Judaism: Haggadic Studies E. J. Brill, 1961
Koskenniemi, Erkki The Old Testament Miracle-Workers in Early Judaism Mohr Siebeck, 2005
Hayward, Robert Targums and the Transmission of Scripture into Judaism and Christianity Brill, 2010

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Chukkim 28 Heavenly Languages 15 Sympathetic Magic 10 Hillel and Shammai 20 Hybrid Creatures 13 The Second Exodus 23 Exodus in Genesis 13 Abraham, Friend of God 16 Kothar wa-Hasis 5 Two Powers in Heaven 19 Wayward Stars 14 Greco-Roman Household Codes 35 Kal Va'chomer 11 God is a Character 29 Ben Sira the Rabbi 8 Masoretic Additions 6 Masoretic Deletions 7 Divine Bodies 88 World Tree 19 Angelic Intermediaries 3

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