Fourth Ezra and Second Baruch Reconstruction After the Fall

Matthias Henze, Ph.D. (1997), is the Watt J. and Lilly G. Jackson Professor of Biblical Studies at Rice University. His publications on the literature of the Second Temple include "The Madness of Nebuchadnezzar" (1999) and "Jewish Apocalypticism" (2011). Gabriele Boccaccini, Ph.D. (1991) in Judaic Studies, University of Turin, Italy, Professor of Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins at the University of Michigan and Founding Director of the Enoch Seminar has published extensively on Second Temple Judaism including "Middle Judaism" (Fortress, 1991), "Beyond the Essene Hypothesis" (Eerdmans, 1998) and "Roots of Rabbinic Judaism" (Eerdmans, 2001).