Gerbern S. Oegema is Professor of Biblical Studies at McGill University. He studied Biblical Studies, Jewish Studies, and Religious Studies at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Freie Universität Berlin. He has been an Assistant Professor and Privatdozent at the Universität Tübingen and a Scholar in Residence at the Center for Theological Inquiry in Princeton. In his teaching and research he focuses on Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins. He is the author and co-editor of more than twenty books, as well as the co-editor of several book series.

• PrefaceContributors Part I: The Apocrypha in Judaism and Christianity The Apocrypha: An Introduction 1. The Apocrypha in the Context of Early Judaism 2. The Apocrypha, the Septuagint, and other Greek Witnesses 3. A Canonical History of the Old Testament Apocryphay 4. The Apocrypha in the History of Christianity 5. The Protestant Reception of the Apocrypha Part II: The Apocrypha Historical and Legendary: 6. Apocrypha, Genre, and Historicity7. 1 Esdras (Greek Ezra) 8. Baruch 9. Book of Judith10. 1 Maccabees' Ethics, Etiquette, Political Theology, and Structure11. 2 Maccabees 12. 3 Maccabees 13. 4 Maccabees Apocalyptic: 14. The Apocrypha and Apocalypticism15. 2 Esdras Didactic: 16. Wisdom Literature of the Apocrypha and Related Compositions of the Second Temple Era17. Sirach 18. Tobit 19 .The Wisdom of Solomon Additions to Biblical Books: 20. The Additions to Daniel21. The Additions of the Greek Book(s) of Esther 22. Epistle of Jeremiah 23. Prayer of Manasseh24. Psalm 151-155 Part III: Major Themes in the Apocrypha 25. Jewish Religion in the Apocrypha: Between Biblical Precepts and Early Rabbinic Thought26. Women and Gender in the Apocrypha27. Theology and Ethics in the Apocrypha 28. Sexuality in the Apocrypha29. Biblical Theology and the Apocrypha Index

Readers looking for material on the Christian apocrypha must look to The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Apocrypha...some of the contributions here are excellent and informed starting places for their respective subjects, and there is much value in the new Oxford Handbook of the Apocrypha.