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... the connections between the literature of the Ancient Near East, Hebrew Bible, Samaritans, Septuagint, Deuterocanon, Dead Sea Scrolls, Classics, New Testament, Targums, Rabbinics, and early Christians.

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Whittle, Sarah "Jubilees and Romans 2:6–29: Circumcision, Law Observance, and Ethnicity" in Blackwell, Ben C., John K. Goodrich, and Jason Maston (eds.) Reading Romans in Context: Paul and Second Temple Judaism Zondervan, 2015
Bekken, Per Jarle Paul's Negotiation of Abraham in Galatians 3 in the Jewish Context: The Galatian Converts — Lineal Descendants of Abraham and Heirs of the Promise Walter de Gruyter, 2021
Walton, John H. Genesis 1 as Ancient Cosmology Eisenbrauns, 2011
Albertz, Rainer and Rüdiger Schmitt Family and Household Religion in Ancient Israel and the Levant Eisenbrauns, 2012
Koester, Craig R. Hebrews: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary Yale University Press, 2010
Barton, John Ethics in Ancient Israel Oxford University Press, 2014

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