Intertestamental Studies (ITS)

516 BCE – 95 CE

Studies of the cognate literatures of the Second Temple period (516 BCE – 135 CE), the intertestamental period (c. 420 BCE – 29 CE), and the period of New Testament writings (45–95 CE) — those literatures providing background material for New Testament studies

  1. Old Testament Apocrypha (deuterocanonical books)
  2. Old Testament Pseudepigrapha
  3. The Dead Sea Scrolls
  4. Versions of the Old Testament (e.g., Septuagint)
  5. Philo and Josephus
  6. The Targums
  7. Rabbinic Literature
  8. . . . portions of the New Testament Pseudepigrapha, Early Church Fathers, Gnostic Writings, and some other writings
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