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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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Dimant, Devorah "The Flood as a Preamble: The Perspective of Qumran Hebrew Texts" in Dimant, Devorah; Kratz, Reinhard G. (ed.) Rewriting and Interpreting the Hebrew Bible: The Biblical Patriarchs in the Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls De Gruyter, 2013
Baynes, Leslie The Heavenly Book Motif in Judeo-Christian Apocalypses 200 B.C.E.–200 C.E. Brill, 2012
Himmelfarb, Martha Tours of Hell: An Apocalyptic Form in Jewish and Christian Literature University of Pennsylvania Press, 1983
Stuckenbruck, Loren T. Angel Veneration and Christology A Study in Early Judaism and in the Christology of the Apocalypse of John Mohr Siebeck, 1995
Louden, Bruce Greek Myth and the Bible Routledge, 2019
VanderKam, James C. Jubilees: A Commentary Fortress Press, 2018

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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 27 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 Hidden Manna 2 The Two Ways 11 Divine Motherhood 10 Fictive Kinship 5

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