Explore Biblical Intertextuality

... 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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Osiek, Carolyn Shepherd of Hermas: A Commentary Fortress Press, 1999
Joslyn-Siemiatkoski, Daniel The More Torah, The More Life: A Christian Commentary on Mishnah Avot Peeters, 2018
Johnson, Luke Timothy The Letter of James Doubleday, 1995
Fitzmyer, Joseph A. The Gospel According to Luke X–XXIV Doubleday, 1985
Greenwood, Kyle Scripture and Cosmology: Reading the Bible between the Ancient World and Modern Science InterVarsity Press, 2015
Bautch, Kelley Coblentz A Study of the Geography of 1 Enoch 17-19: “No One Has Seen What I Have Seen.” Brill, 2003

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