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Lanfranchi, Pierluigi "Reminiscences of Ezekiel's Exagoge in Philo's De vita Mosis" in Graupner, Axel; Wolter, Michael (ed.) Moses in Biblical and Extra-Biblical Traditions De Gruyter, 2007
Jacobson, Howard "Ezekiel, the Tragedian" in Feldman, Louis H.; Kugel, James L.; Schiffman, Lawrence H. (ed.) Outside the Bible: Ancient Jewish Writings Related to Scripture Jewish Publication Society, 2013
van Ruiten, Jacques T.A.G.M. "The Birth of Moses in Egypt According to the Book of Jubilees" in Hilhorst, Anthony; van Kooten, George H. (ed.) The Wisdom of Egypt: Jewish, Early Christian, and Gnostic Essays in Honour of Gerard P. Luttikhuizen Brill, 2005
VanderKam, James C. Jubilees 2: A Commentary on the Book of Jubilees Chapters 22-50 Fortress Press, 2018
Orlov, Andrei The Glory of the Invisible God: Two Powers in Heaven Traditions and Early Christology T&T Clark, 2019
Kugel, James L. The Bible as it Was Harvard University Press, 1998

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