Michael E. Stone is professor of Armenian studies and Gail Levin de Nur Professor of Religious Studies at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the author of numerous books and scholarly articles in biblical, early Jewish, and Armenian studies. He is the editor of Jewish Writings of the Second Temple Period (Fortress and van Gorcum, 1984), the author of 4 Ezra (Hermeneia; Fortress, 1990), and with George W. E. Nickelsburg, coeditor of Early Judaism: Texts and Documents on Faith and Piety, rev. ed. (Fortress, 2009).
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"Sisters of a sort, two ancient texts express their authors' intellectual puzzlement and emotional anguish over the destruction of their mother city and the demolition of its sanctuary. Two modern scholars - as schooled in these texts as anyone - present them in crisp and clear translation with incisive introductions, inviting us to wonder what in our very different world is new under the sun." George W. E. Nickelsburg Professor Emeritus, the University of Iowa