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Ilan, Tal and Vered Noam "Remnants of a Pharisaic Apologetic Source in Josephus and in the Babylonian Talmud" in Kister, Menahem; Newman, Hillel I.; Segal, Michael; Clements, Ruth A. (ed.) Tradition, Transmission, and Transformation from Second Temple Literature through Judaism and Christianity in Late Antiquity Brill, 2015
Ronis, Sara A Seven-Headed Demon in the House of Study: Understanding a Rabbinic Demon in Light of Zoroastrian, Christian, and Babylonian Textual Traditions AJS Review, Vol. 43, No. 1, 2019
Ulmer, Rivka "Egyptian Magic and the Osiris Myth in Midrash" in Teugels, Lieve M.; Ulmer, Rivka (ed.) Midrash and Context: Proceedings of the 2004 and 2005 SBL Consultation on Midrash Gorgias Press, 2007
Strack, Hermann L., and Paul Billerbeck A Commentary on the New Testament from the Talmud and Midrash, Volume 3: Romans through Revelation Lexham Press, 2023
Nir, Rivḳah The Destruction of Jerusalem and the Idea of Redemption in the Syriac Apocalypse of Baruch Society of Biblical Literature, 2002
Wolfson, Harry Austryn Philo Foundations of Religious Philosophy in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam Harvard University Press, 1962

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