Originally published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2000, in series: Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Revealed literature in the second temple period
Davidic complicity in the deaths of Abner and Eshbaal : a historical and redactional study
Bhl in Ps. 2:5 and its etymology
Ezra-Nehemiah or Ezra and Nehemiah?
The origin, character, and early history of the 364-day calendar : a reassessment of Jaubert's hypotheses
2 Maccabees, 6, 7a, and calendrical change in Jerusalem
Hanukkah : its timing and significance according to 1 and 2 Maccabees
John 10 and the feast of dedication
Joshua the high priest and the interpretation of Zechariah 3
Jewish high priests of the Persian period : is the list complete?
People and high priesthood in early Maccabean times
Simon the just : Simon I or Simon II?
The prophetic-sapiential origins of apocalyptic thought
Prophecy and apocalyptics in the Ancient Near East
Biblical interpretation in 1 Enoch and Jubilees
Enoch traditions in Jubilees and other second-century sources
The theophany of Enoch I 3b-7, 9
Some major issues in the contemporary study 1 Enoch : reflections on J.T. Milik's The books of Enoch: Aramaic fragments of Qumran cave 4
Studies in the Apocalypse of Weeks (1 Enoch 93:1-10; 91:11-17)
The textual base for the Ethiopic translation of 1 Enoch
The birth of Noah
Righteous one, Messiah, chosen one, and son of man in 1 Enoch 37-71
The putative author of the book of Jubilees
Jubilees and the Hebrew texts of Genesis-Exodus
Jubilees and the priestly Messiah of Qumran
Putting them in their place : geography as an evaluative tool
Genesis 1 in Jubilees 2
Studies in the chronology of the book of Jubilees
Jubilees' exegetical creation of Levi the priest