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Pierce, Madison N. "Gospel Reading and Prosopological Exegesis in Luke-Acts" in Pierce, Madison N., Andrew J. Byers, and Simon Gathercole (eds.) Gospel Reading and Reception in Early Christian Literature Cambridge University Press, 2022
Tigchelaar, Eibert J. C. "The White Dress of the Essenes and the Pythagoreans" in García Martínez, Florentino, and Gerard P. Luttikhuizen (eds.) Jerusalem, Alexandria, Rome: Studies in Ancient Cultural Interaction in Honour of A. Hilhorst Brill, 2003
Popović, Mladen "Apocalyptic Determinism" in Collins, John J. (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Apocalyptic Literature Oxford University Press, 2014
Stuckenbruck, Loren T. "The Formation and Re-Formation of Daniel in the Dead Sea Scrolls" in Charlesworth, James H. (ed.) The Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls, Volume One: Scripture and the Scrolls Baylor University Press, 2006
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
Bauckham, Richard Jude and the Relatives of Jesus in the Early Church T&T Clark International, 2004

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