The Old Testament contains a record of the pact between ... by the circumcision (Genesis 17); the pact between God and the Jewish people, by the sprinkling of the people with the blood of animal ...

The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha ... Sinai and Zion: An Entry into the Jewish Bible. (San Francisco: HarperSan Francisco, 1985). Noth, Martin. A History of Pentateuchal Traditions.

Beth A. Berkowitz shows that ancient, medieval and modern exegesis of this verse provides an essential backdrop for today's conversations about Jewish assimilation and minority identity more generally ...

In this book, Benjamin Wold builds on recent developments in the study of early Jewish wisdom literature and brings it to bear on the New Testament. This scholarship has been transformed by the ...