Originally published: T�ubingen : Mohr Siebeck, 2008.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction -- The martyrdom of Enoch and Elijah: Jewish or Christian? -- Enoch and Elijah in the Coptic Apocalypse of Elijah -- The rise of apocalyptic -- The delay of the parousia -- A note on a problem in the Greek version 1 of Enoch 1.9 -- The son of man: 'a man in my position' or 'someone'? -- The apocalypses in the new pseudepigrapha -- Pseudo-apostolic letters -- Kainam the son of Arpachshad in Luke's geneaology -- The list of the tribes of Israel in Revelation 7 -- The parting of the ways: what happened and why -- The messianic interpretation of Isaiah 10:34 -- The relevance of extra-canonical Jewish texts to New Testament study -- Josephus' account of the temple in Contra Apionem 2.102-109 -- Life, death, and the afterlife in second temple Judaism -- What if Paul had traveled east instead of west? -- Covenant, law and salvation in the Jewish apocalypses -- The restoration of Israel in Luke-Acts -- Paul and other Jews with Latin names in the New Testament -- The horarium of Adam and the chronology of the passion -- The spirit of God in us loathes envy (James 4:5) -- Tobit as a parable for the exiles of northern Israel -- The continuing quest for the provenance of Old Testament pseudepigrapha.