Includes bibliographical references and index.

v. 1. PART I : TEXTS ORDERED ACCORDING TO BIBLICAL CHRONOLOGY -- Adam Octopartite/Septipartite / Grant Macaskill with Eamon Greenwood -- The life of Adam and Eve (Coptic fragments) / Simon J. Gathercole -- The book of the covenant / Janes VanderKam -- The Apocryphon of Seth / Alexander Toepel -- The book of Noah / Martha Himmelfarb -- The Apocryphon of Eber / James VanderKam -- The dispute over Abraham / Richard Bauckham -- The inquiry of Abraham (a possible allusion to the Apocalypse of Abraham) / Richard Bauckham -- The story of Melchizedek with the Melchizedek legend from the Chronicon paschale / Pierluigi Piovanelli -- The Syriac history of Joseph / Kristian S. Heal -- Aramaic Levi / James R. Davila -- Midrash Vayissa'u / Martha Himmelfarb -- The testament of Job (Coptic fragments) / Gesa Schenke -- The Tiburtine Sibyl (Greek) / Riuwerd Buitenwerf -- The eighth book of Moses / Todd E. Klutz -- The Balaam text from Tell Deir 'Alla / Edward M. Cook -- Eldad and Modad / Richard Bauckham -- Songs of David / G.W. Lorein and E. Van Staalduine-Sulman -- The Aramaic song of the lamb (the dialogue between David and Goliath) / C.T.R. Hayward -- Exorcistic Psalms of David and Solomon / Gideon Bohak -- The selenodromion of David and Solomon / Pablo A. Torijiano -- The hydromancy of Solomon / Pablo A. Torijiano -- Questions of the Queen of Sheba and answers by King Solomon / Vahan S. Hovhanessian and Sebastian P. Brock -- The nine and a half tribes / Richard Bauckham -- The heartless rich man and the precious stone / William Adler -- Jeremiah's prophecy to Pashhur / Darrell D. Hannah -- The Apocryphon of Ezekiel / Benjamin G. Wright III -- The treatise of the vessels (Massekhet Kelim) / James R. Davila -- The seventh vision of Daniel / Sergio La Porta -- A Danielic pseudepigraphon paraphrased by Papias / Basil Lourie -- The relics of Zechariah and the boy buried at his feet / William Adler -- Sefer Zerubbabel : the prophetic vision of Zerubbabel ben Shealtiel / John C. Reeves -- Fifth Ezra / Theodore A. Bergren -- Sixth Ezra / Theodore A. Bergren -- The Latin vision of Ezra / Richard Bauckham. PART II : THEMATIC TEXTS -- The caves of treasures / Alexander Toepel -- Palaea historica ("the Old Testament history") / William Adler -- Quotations from lost books in the Hebrew bible / James R. Davila -- Hebrew visions of hell and paradise / Helen Spurling.