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Nickelsburg, George W. E. Jewish Literature between the Bible and the Mishnah . 2nd ed. Philadelphia: Fortress, 2011. The best one-volume summary and exposition of the Apocrypha and other intertestamental writings. Seiling, Jonathan R. “Solae (Quae?) Scripturae: “Anabaptists and the Apocrypha.” Mennonite Quarterly Review 80 (2006): 5–34. A scholarly article showing how Anabaptists replied on the Apocrypha as Scripture during the Reformation. Schwartz, Daniel R. 2 Maccabees. Commentaries on Early Jewish Literature. Boston: de Gruyter, 2008. A preeminent Jewish scholar whose commentary offers the clearest contrasts between 1–2 Maccabees. Skehan, Patrick W., Alexander A. Di Lella. The Wisdom of Ben Sira . Anchor Bible 39. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1987. A scholarly commentary on Sirach. Wills, Lawrence M. Introduction to the Apocrypha: Jewish Books in Christian Bibles . New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2021. A comprehensive and readable introduction to the Apocrypha.