• Post-Exilic History of the People of Israel -  by Willis J. Beecher, D.D.  This is a great work with a wealth of information about Israel between the Old and New Testaments.  Has great coverage on the times of Ezra and Nehemiah, as well as Literary Developments in the Inter-Testament Period. Also includes a special article on Ezra the Scribe by George Goodspeed.  The original book by Beecher contains only the first 12 chapters listed below.  Several chapters have been added to the original. This SwordSearcher Module currently includes the following Chapters:

   1. The Seventy Years of the Exile
   2. The Seventy Years as a Literature Producing Period
   3. The Return Under Zerubbabel
   4. From Zerubbabel to Ezra
   5. The Return Under Ezra and Nehemiah
   6. The Law in the Times of Ezra and Nehemiah
   7. The Second Administration of Nehemiah
   8. Nehemiah and the Sacred Writings
    9. From the Death of Nehemiah to the Maccabaean Times
   10. Literary Work from Nehemiah to the Maccabees
   11. The Maccabaean Times and Onward
   12.The Development of Institutions and Literature 
         (From the Maccabaean Times to the Birth of Jesus)
   13. The Successors of Ezra the Scribe (George Goodspeed)

    14. The Assyrian King Asurbanipal - Part One (Neal A. Walker)

    15. The Assyrian King Asurbanipal - Part Two (Neal A. Walker)

    16. The Babylonian Istar Epic (James A. Craig)
    17. A Jewish Temple in Egypt: B.C. 525-411 (S.R. Driver)
    18. The Later Seleucids (Peter Green)
    19. The Hasmonean Dynasty
    20. The Seleucid and Ptolemic Empires
    21. Deaths of Antiochus IV., Herold the Great, and Herod Agrippa I
   

Contains the sub-directory "PostExile-Assets," which is required for this module.
Updated 03/07/22 - TAB Name: "PostExile" -- unZIPped: 548 kb -- ZIPped: 345 kb.
 

• Works of Alfred Edersheim - Probably the most profound Work on the History of the Jewish People.  This Large Collection Includes the Famous Work "The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah."  Almost 160 Chapters and over 3,000 Pages.  Includes all of Edersheim's Major Works.  TAB: "AEMessiah" -- ZIPped:  4.67 MB -- unZIPped:  5.47MB

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• History of the Jewish People During the Time of Christ - This Five Volume Work by Emil Schurer is a true Classic.  Includes 2,000 pages and a very detailed History of God's People from Antioch Epiphanes to the Destruction of the Temple.
  TAB: "ESchurer" -- ZIPped:  1.63 MB -- unZIPped:  2.26 MB.

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