Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction - - PART 1: Reading the Septuagint 1.1 LXX Deuteronomy 1.1.1 The Song of Moses 1.2 LXX Isaiah 1.2.1 The Poem of the Suffering Servant 1.3 2 Maccabees 1.3.1 The Martyrdom of a Jewish Mother and Her Seven Sons 1.4 4 Maccabees 1.4.1 The Martyrdom of Eleazar - - PART 2: Reading the Apostolic Fathers 2.1 1 Clement 2.1.1 Exemplars of Faithful Obedience 2.2 Ignatius of Antioch 2.2.1 Warnings aboutFalse Teachers 2.3 Polycarp of Smyrna 2.3.1 The Trial of Polycarp 2.4 The Epistle of Barnabas 2.4.1 Lessons from the Day of Atonement 2.5 The Epistle to Diognetus 2.5.1 A Case for Christian Distinctiveness - - PART 3: Reading Old Testament Pseudepigrapha 3.1 The Letter of Aristeas 3.1.1 The Rationale of Jewish Law 3.1.2 The Translation of the Law 3.2 Joseph and Aseneth 3.2.1 Joseph Prays for Aseneth's Conversion 3.2.2 Aseneth Partakes of the Heavenly Food 3.3 Sibylline Oracles 3.3.1 A King from the Sun and the Final Assault on the Temple 3.4 The Sentences of Pseudo-Phocylides 3.4.1 Admonition to Mercy 3.5 Fragments of Hellenistic Jewish Writers 3.5.1 Theodotus the Poet 3.5.1.1 Jacob and the Shechemites-Fragment 4 3.5.1.2 On Circumcision-Fragment 5 3.5.2 Ezekiel the Tragedian 3.5.2.1 Moses on the Heavenly Throne-Fragments 6 and 7 3.5.3 Aristobulus the Philosopher 3.5.3.1 Moses as the Font of All Wisdom-Fragment 3 3.5.4 Eupolemus the Historian3.5.4.1 Moses as the First Sage-Fragment 1 - - PART 4: Reading Philo 4.1 Allegorical Commentary 4.1.1 The Heavenly Human and the Earthly Human, Part 1 4.1.2 The Heavenly Human and the Earthly Human, Part 2
4.1.3 The Call of Abraham
4.2 Exposition of the Law
4.2.1 Prologue-Moses the Lawgiver
4.2.2 The Image of God, Part 1
4.2.3 The Image of God, Part 2
4.2.4 The First Humans in the Garden, Part 1
4.2.5 The First Humans in the Garden, Part 2
4.2.6 The Faith of Abraham
4.2.7 The Cosmic Temple and the Jerusalem Temple
4.2.8 The Sacrificial System
4.3 Historical and Apologetic Works
4.3.1 The Mockery of King Agrippa
4.3.2 In Praise of Caesar Augustus - - PART 5: Reading Josephus
5.1 Jewish War 5.1.1 Prologue, Part 1
5.1.2 Prologue, Part 2
5.1.3 The Philosophical Schools of Judaism, Part 1
5.1.4 The Philosophical Schools of Judaism, Part 2
5.1.5 Another Jesus Predicts the Destruction of the Temple
5.2 Jewish Antiquities
5.2.1 The Moral Lesson of Jewish Antiquities
5.2.2 The Binding of Isaac
5.2.3 The Departure of Moses
5.2.4 The Conversion of King Izates
5.3 The Life
5.3.1 Ancestry and Education
5.4 Against Apion
5.4.1 Jewish Virtue - - PART 6: Reading Historians and Biographers
6.1 Herodotus
6.1.1 The Purpose of the Inquiry

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