GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
MACCABEAN REVOLT
DEAD SEA SCROLLS
PHARISEES
JOSEPHUS AND THE JEWISH WAR
GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
TEXTBOOKS
Boccaccini, G. Middle Judaism: Jewish Thought 300 BCE to 200 CE. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1991.
Cohen, S.J.D. From the Maccabees to the Mishna.. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1987.
Grabbe, L.L. Judaism from Cyrus to Hadrian. 2 vols. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1992. (Excellent advanced introduction. The place to begin research on any of the topics he covers.)
__________. An Introduction to First Century Judaism: Jewish Religion and History in the Second Temple Peiod. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1996.
Jaffee, M.J. Early Judaism. Prentice Hall, 1997.
Murphy, F.J. The Religious World of Jesus: An Introduction to Second Temple Palestinian Judaism. Nashville: Abingdon, 1991.
Newsome, J.D. Greeks, Romans, Jews: Currents of Culture and Belief in the New Testament World. Philadelphia: Trinity Press International, 1992.
Nickelsburg, G.W.E. Jewish Literature Between the Bible and the Mishna. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1981.
Sanders, E.P. Judaism: Practice and Belief, 63 BCE - 66 CE. Philadelphia: Trinity Press International, 1992. (Not really a textbook, but a detailed survey of "Common Judaism" and "Groups and Parties," in direct or indirect debate with a number of competing scholarly views.)
Schiffman, L.H. From Text to Tradition: A History of Second Temple and Rabbinic Judaism. Hoboken, NJ: KTAV, 1991
Segal, A.F. Rebecca's Children: Judaism and Christianity in the Roman World. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1986.
Shanks, H., ed. Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism: A Parallel History of their Origins and Early Development.Washington, DC: Biblical Archaeology Society, 1992. (Chapters on Jews by Cohen, Levine, Feldman and Gafni)
HISTORIES OF JEWS
Abel, F.M. Histoire de la Palestine depuis la conqute d'Alexandre jusqu' l'invasion arabe. 2 vols. Paris: Lecoffre, 1952.
Alon, G. The Jews in their Land in the Talmudic Age. 2 vols. Jerusalem: Magnes, 1980-1984. (Hebrew original 1953-55)
Avi-Yonah, M., ed. The Herodian Period. World History of the Jewish People. Vol. 7. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 1975.
Avi-Yonah, M. and Z. Baras, ed. Society and Religion in the Second Temple Period. World History of the Jewish People. Vol. 8. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers, 1977.
____________. The Jews of Palestine: A Political History from the Bar Kokhba War to the Arab Conquest. Oxford: Blackwell, 1976.
Barclay, J.M.G. Jews in the Mediterranean Diaspora: From Alexander to Trajan (323 bce - 117 CE). Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1996.
Bickerman, E. The Jews in the Greek Age. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1988.
Davies, W.D., and L. Finkelstein. The Hellenistic Age. Cambridge History of Judaism. Vol 2. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1989 (but articles written about 15 years ago).
Hengel, M. Judaism and Hellenism. 2 vols. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1974.
_________. The "Hellenization" of Judaea in the First Century After Christ. Philadelphia: Trinity Press International, 1989.
Juster, J. Les Juifs dans l'Empire Romain. 2 vols. Paris, 1914.
Leon, H.J. The Jews of Ancient Rome. Updated edition by C.A. Osiek. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1995.
Neusner, J. A History of the Jews of Babylonia. 5 vols. Leiden: Brill, 1965-1970.
________. Judism in Late Antiquity. Part Two: Historical Syntheses. Leiden: Brill, 1995.
Schäfer, P. The History of the Jews in Antiquity: The Jews of Palestine from Alexander the Great to the Arab Conquest. Harwood Academic Publishers, 1995.
Schalit, A., ed. The Hellenistic Age. World History of the Jewish People. Vol 6. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 1972.
Smallwood, E.M. The Jews under Roman Rule. Rev. ed. Leiden: Brill, 1981.
Stemberger, G. Das klassische Judentum: Kultur und Geschichte der rabbinischen Zeit. Munich, 1979
Tcherikover, V.A. Hellenistic Civilization and the Jews. New York: Jewish Publication Society, 1959.
HELLENISTIC AND ROMAN HISTORIES
Cary, M. and H.H. Scullard. A History of Rome. 3d ed. New York: St. Martin's 1975.
Cook, S.A., F.E. Adcock, M.P. Charlesworth and H. Baynes. The Cambridge Ancient History. Vols 9-12. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1932-39.
Green, P. Alexander to Actium: The Historical Evolution of the Hellenistic Age. Berkeley: California UP, 1990.
Gruen, E.S. The Hellenistic World and the Coming of Rome. 2 vols. Berkeley: California, 1984.
Grimal, P. Hellenism and the Rise of Rome. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1968.
Millar, F. The Roman Empire and its Neighbors. New York: Delacorte: 1966.
Peters, F.E. The Harvest of Hellenism: A History of the Near East from Alexander the Great to the Triumph of Christianity. Simon & Schuster, 1970.
Scullard, H.H. From the Gracchi to Nero: A History of Rome from 133 BC to AD 68 5th ed. New York: Methuen, 1982.
Walbank, F.W. The Hellenistic World. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1982.
Walbank, F.W., A.E. Astin, M.W. Frederiksen, and R.M. Ogilvie. The Cambridge Ancient History. Vols. 7 (2 parts) and 8. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1984-1990.
Will, E. Histoire politique du monde hllenistique (323-30 av. J.-C. Rev. ed. 2 vols. Nancy: Publications de l'Universit, 1979-1982.
HELLENISTIC PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION
Armstrong, A.H., ed. Classical Mediterranean Spirituality. New York: Croosroad, 1986.
Colish, M.L. The Stoic Tradition: From Antiquity to the Middle Ages. 2 vols. Brill, 1985-1990.
Dillon, J. The Middle Platonists. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1977. Rev ed., 1996.
Ferguson, J. The Religions of the Roman Empire. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1970.
Grant, F.C. Hellenistic Religions. New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1953. (Excellent collection of texts.)
Kristeller, P.O. Greek Philosophers of the Hellenistic Age. Columbia, 1993.
Kraut, R. (ed.). The Cambridge Companion to Plato. Cambridge, 1992.
Liebeschuetz, J.H.W.G. Continuity and Change in Roman Religion. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1979.
Long, A.A. Hellenistic Philosophy. 2nd ed. Berkeley: U. of California, 1986.
Long A.A. and D.N. Sedley. The Hellenistic Philosophers. 2 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1987. (Texts, translations and commentaries.)
MacMullen, R. Paganism in the Roman Empire. New Haven: Yale, 1981.
Martin, L. Hellenistic Religions. New York: Oxford, 1987.
Nilsson, M.P. Geschichte der griechischen Religion. 2nd ed. Vol. 2. Munich: Beck, 1961.
Nock, A.D. Conversion. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1933.
_________. Essays on Religion and the Ancient World. 2 vols. Edited by Z. Stewart. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1972.
Tarn, W.W. Hellenistic Civilization. Third rev. ed. with G.T. Griffith. New York: St. Martin's, 1952.
Turcan, R. The Cults of the Roman Empire. Blackwell, 1996.
Wallis, R.T. Neoplatonism. London: Duckworth, 1972.
MULTI-VOLUME REFERENCES
Compendium Rerum Iudaicarum ad Novum Testamentum (CRINT):
Safrai, S., and M. Stern, eds. The Jewish People in the First Century. 2 vols. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1974.
Stone, M.E., ed. Jewish Writings of the Second Temple Period. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1984.
Safrai, S., ed. The Literature of the Sages. Vol. 1. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1987.
Mulder, M.J. and H. Sysling, eds. Mikra: Text, Translations, Reading and Interpretation of the Hebrew Bible in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1988.
Schürer, E. The History of the Jewish People in the Age of Jesus Christ (175 B.C. - A.D. 135). Rev. by G. Vermes, F. Millar and M. Goodman. 3 vols in 4. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1973-1987.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
A full discussion of bibliographical resources for Jews and Judaism in the Graeco-Roman period can be found in L.H. Feldman, Josephus and Modern Scholarship (1937-1980) (Berlin/New York: de Gruyter, 1984) 4-19.
An excellent review of recent scholarship can be found in Early Judaism and its Modern Interpreters, edited by R.A. Kraft and G.W.E. Nickelsburg (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1986).
Mor, M. and Rappaport, U. Bibliography of Works on Jewish History in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods 1976-1980. Jerusalem: Zalman Shazar Center, 1982.
________________________. Bibliography of Works on Jewish History in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods 1980-1985. Jerusalem: Zalman Shazar Center, 1987.
________________________. "A Survey of 25 years (1960-1985) of Israeli Scholarship on Jewish History in the Second Temple Period." Biblical Theology Bulletin 16 (1986) 56-72.
JSJ includes abstracts of recent articles
New Testament Abstracts
Old Testament Abstracts
L'Anne Philologique
Index of Articles on Jewish Studies
Kirjath Sefer
Elenchus Bibligraphicus Biblicus
Classical Review
Gnomon
ENCYLCOPEDIAS
Anchor Bible Dictionary. 6 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1992(N.B.) (ABD)
Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt (ANRW). Vols. 19 (1979), 20 (1987) and 21 (1984), each with two parts, are devoted exclusively to Jews and Judaism. Vols. 2,8,9,13 and 23 also contain articles on Jewish history. (Most of the articles are in English)
Encyclopedia Judaica. 16 vols. Jerusalem: Keter, 1972 + Yearbooks. (EJ)
The Encyclopedia of Religion. 16 vols. New York: Macmillan, 1987. (ER)
Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible, 4 vols. Nashville: Abingdon, 1962; Supplement (1976). (IDB)
Jewish Encylopedia. 12 vols. New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1906. (JE)
JOURNALS
AJS Annual
Biblical Archaeology
Biblical Archaeology Review
Bible Review
Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research
Catholic Biblical Quarterly
Classical Quarterly
Classical Philology
Dead Sea Discoveries
Harvard Theological Review
Hebrew Union College Annual
Henoch
Israel Exploration Journal
Journal of Biblical Literature
Journal of Hellenic Studies
Journal of Jewish Studies
Journal of Roman Studies
Journal for the Study of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic and Roman Period
Journal for the Study of the Old Testament
Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha
Palestine Exploration Quarterly
Revue de Qumran
Revue des tudes Juives
Revue Biblique
Studium Biblicum Franciscanum Liber Annuus
Qadmoniot (Hebrew articles with English Summaries)
Tarbiz (Hebrew articles with Eng. summaries)
Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palstina-Vereins
Zeitschrift fr die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft
Zeitschrift fr die Neutestamentliche Wissenschaft
Zion (Hebrew articles with Eng. summaries)
Only some of the most important journals from related fields (Classics, New Testament, Hebrew Bible, etc.) are listed. A list of standard abbreviations can be found in the "Instructions for Contributors" in the Society of Biblical Literature Handbook. Each student should have one of these, as it serves as the most common style manual for American biblical studies. An extensive standard list of abbreviations is found in L'Anne Philologique.
COLLECTIONS OF SOME PRIMARY SOURCES
Colson, F.H., G.H. Whitaker, and R. Marcus. Philo. 12 vols. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1929-1962.
Arnaldez,R., J. Pouilloux, and C. Mondsert, eds. Les ouvres de Philon d'Alexandrie. 35 vols. Paris: Editions du Cerf, 1961-1973.
Feldman, L.H. and M. Reinhold. Jewish Life and Thought among Greeks and Romans: Primary Readings. Fortress, 1966. (Good bibliographies as well as comprehensive collection of texts in translation)
Williamson, R. Jews in the Hellenistic World: Philo. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1989.
Bartlett, J.R. Jews in the Hellenistic World: Josephus, Aristeas, The Sibylline Oracles, and Eupolemus. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1985.
Boffo, L. Iscrizioni greche e latine per lo studio della Bibbia. Brescia: Paideia, 1994.
Thackery, H. St. J., R. Marcus, Wikgren, A., and L.H. Feldman. Josephus. 9 vols. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1926-1965.
Charles, R.H., ed. The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament in English. 2 vols. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1913.
Charlesworth, J.H., ed. The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha. 2 vols. Garden City, NJ: Doubleday, 1983-1985. (OTP)
Sparks, H.F.D., ed. The Apocryphal Old Testament. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1984.
Kmmel, W.G. Jdische Schriften aus hellenistisch-rmischen Zeit. Gtersloh: Mohn, 1973- . (JSHRZ)
Holladay, C.R. Fragments from Hellenistic Jewish Authors. 4 vols. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1983-1996.
Vermes, G. The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English. New York: Penguin, 1997.
Stern, M. Greek and Latin Authors on Jews and Judaism. 3 vols. Jerusalem: Israel Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1974-1984.
Tcherikover, V.A., A. Fuks, and M. Stern. Corpus Papyrorum Judaicarum. 3 vols. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1957-1964. (CPJ)
Meshorer, Y. Ancient Jewish Coinage. 2 vols. New York: Amphora, 1982.
Goodenough, E.R. Jewish Symbols in the Greco-Roman Period. 13 vols. New York: Pantheon, 1953-1965.
Frey, J.-B. Corpus Inscriptionum Judaicarum. 2 vols. Rome: Pontificio Istituto di archeologia cristiana, 1936-1952. Rev. ed. of vol 1, with prolegomenon by B. Lifshitz. New York: KTAV, 1975. (CIJ)
Horbury W.A. and D. Noy. Jewish Inscriptions of Egypt. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1992.
Noy, D. Jewish Inscriptions of Western Europe. 2 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1993-1995.
Linder, A. The Jews in Roman Imperial Legislation. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1987.
Epstein, I., ed. The Babylonian Talmud. 35 vols. London: Soncino, 1935-1952.
Freedman, H. and M. Simon, ed. The Midrash Rabbah. 10 vols. London: Soncino, 1939.
Danby, H. The Mishna. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1933.
Neusner, J. Mishna. New Haven: Yale UP
Neusner, J. The Tosefta. 6 vols. New York: KTAV, 1977-1986.
Neusner, J., ed. The Talmud of the Land of Israel. vols. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press,
(In addition to these works, Neusner has also translated almost the entire Rabbinic corpus from late antiquity. The translations are published by Scholars Press.)
THE MACCABEAN REVOLT
1 & 2 Maccabees
Abel, F.-M. Les livres des Maccabes. EB; Paris: Lecoffre, 1949.
Attridge, "Historiography." In JWSTP, 171-183.
Doran, R. Temple Propaganda: The Purpose and Character of 2 Maccabees. Washington, DC: Catholic Biblical Association of America, 1981.
Collins, J.J. Daniel, 1-2 Maccabees with an Excursus on the Apocalyptic Genre. OTM 16. Wilmington: Michael Glazier, 1981.
Doran, ANRW 2 (1987) 20.1.
Doran, R. First and Second Maccabees. The New Interpreter's Bible. Vol. 4. Nashville: Abingdon, 1996.
T. Fischer, "Maccabees, Books of," ABD
Goldstein, J. I Maccabees (AB 41; Garden City, NJ: Doubleday, 1976), and II Maccabees (AB 41A; Garden City, NJ: Doubleday, 1983)
Habicht, C. II Makkaberbuch. JSHRZ 1/3; Gtersloh: Mohn, 1976.
Momigliano, A. "The Second Book of Maccabees." In Essays on Ancient and Modern Judaism, 36-47. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994.
Nickelsburg, G.W.E. "Religious Persecution - The Story of the Persecution and Vindication of the Righteous." In Resurrection, Immortality, and Eternal Life in Intertestamental Judaism, 93-111 (2 Macc. 93-109; 4 Macc. 109-11). Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1972.
K.-D. Schunk, I Makkaberbuch. JSHRZ; Gtersloh: Mohn, 1980.
Zeitlin, S. and S. Tedesche. The First Book of Maccabees. New York: Harper, 1950.
_____________________. The Second Book of Maccabees. New York: Harper, 1954.
4 Maccabees
Anderson, H. 4 Maccabees. In OTP 2.531-564.
Breitenstein, U. Beobachtungen zu Sprache, Stil und Gedankengut des Vierten Makkabäerbuches. Basel/Stuttgart: Schwab, 1978.
Collins, J.J. Between Athens and Jerusalem, 187-91.
Dupont-Sommer, A. Le quatrième livre des Machabées. Paris: Champion, 1939.
Hadas, M. The Third and Fourth Books of Maccabees. New York: KTAV, 1953.
Redditt, P.L. "The Concept of Nomos in Fourth Maccabees." CBQ 45 (1983) 249-70.
Renehan, R. "The Greek Philosophical Background of Fourth Maccabees." Rheinisches Museum für Philologie 115 (1972) 223-38.
Van Henten, J.W. The Maccabean Martyrs as Saviours of the Jewish People: A Study of 2 & 4 Maccabees. SJSJ 57. Brill, 1997.
Williams, S.K. Jesus' Death As Saving Event: The Background and Origin of a Concept. Harvard Dissertations in Religion 2. Missoula: Scholars Press, 1975. ("Traditions of the Maccabean Martyrs from Daniel to II Maccabees and Josephus," 59-90, and "The Death of the Martyrs in IV Maccabees," 165-202)
Daniel
Collins, J.J. Daniel. Hermeneia. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1993.
J.J. Collins, The Apocalyptic Vision of the Book of Daniel (Missoula: Scholars Press, 1977).
J.A. Montgomery, A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Book of Daniel (ICC; Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1927)
A. Lacocque, The Book of Daniel (Atlanta: John Knox, 1975.)
Rabbinic and Related Texts
Agus, A. "The Mother of the Sons." In The Binding of Isaac and Messiah: Law Martyrdom and Deliverance in Early Rabbinic Religiosity, 11-32. . Albany: SUNY Press, 1988.
Cohen, G. D. "Hannah and Her Seven Sons in Hebrew Literature." In Studies in the Variety of Rabbinic Cultures, 39-60. Philadelphia: JPS, 1991 (1st pub. 1953).
Goldwurm, H., M. Zlotowitz and N. Scherman. "Chanah and her Seven Sons." In Chanukah: Its History, Observance, and Significance. A Presentation based upon Talmudic and Traditional Sources, 70-77. Brooklyn: Mesorah, 1981.
Gutman, J. "Ha-em veShivat Baneha ba'Aggada uveSifre Hashmonaim II veIV" ("The Mother and her Seven Sons in the Aggada and in the Second and Fourth Books of Maccabees"). Sefer Yohanan Levi, ed. M. Schwab and J. Gutman, 25-37. Jerusalem, 1949.
The Revolt
Goldstein provides an extensive discussion in the introductions to his commentaries.
Bar-Kokhva, B. Judas Maccabaeus: The Jewish Struggle Against the Seleucids (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1989).
Bickermann, E.J. The God of the Maccabees. Leiden: Brill, 1979. (translation of 1937 text without all of the notes).
_______________. The Jews in the Greek Age. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1988.
Bilde, P., T. Engberg-Pedersen, L. Hannestad and J. Zahle, eds. Religion and Religious Practice in the Seleucid Kingdom. Aarhus: Aarhus UP, 1990
Bringmann, K. Hellenistische Reform und Religionsverfolgung in Juda. Gttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1983.
Bringmann, K. "Die Verfolgung der jdischen Religion durch Antiochus IV: Ein Konflict zwischen Judentum und Hellenismus?" Antike und Abendland 26 (1980) 176-90.
Bunge, J.G. "Die sogenannte Religionsverfolgung Antiochus IV. Epiphanes und die griechischen Stdte." JSJ 10 (1979) 155-65. (includes references to his other articles on Antiochus and the revolt.)
Doran, R. "Jason's Gymnasion." In Of Scribes and Scholars. Studies on the Hebrew Bible, Intertestamental Judaism, and Christian Origins, edited by H.W. Attridge, J.J. Collins, and T.H. Tobin, 99-110. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1990.
Fischer, T. Seleukiden und Makkaber: Beitrge zur Seleukidengeschichte und zu die politischen Ereignissen in Juda warend der 1. Hlfte des 2. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. Bochum: Brokmeyer, 1980.
Grabbe, 1.221-311 (containing a very full recent bibliography)
Grabbe, L.I. "Maccabean Chronology: 167-164 or 168-165 B.C.E.?" JBL 110 (1991) 59-74.
Green, From Alexander to Actium, 497-524.
Gruen. E. "Hellenism and Persecution." In Hellenistic History and Culture, ed. P. Green, 238-74. Berkeley: California UP, 1993.
Habicht, C. CAH 8 (2nd ed.; 1989) 346-50.
D.J. Harrington, The Maccabean Revolt: Anatomy of a Biblical Revolution (Wilmington, Del.: Micahel Glazier, 1988)
Hengel, M. Judaism and Hellenism (See critique by F. Millar, "The Background to the Maccabean Revolution," JJS 29 [1978] 1-21).
Kuhrt, A. and S. Sherwin-White. Hellenism in the Near East: The Interaction of Greek and Non-Greek Civilizations From Syria to Central Asia after Alexander. Berkeley: California, 1987.
Mrkholm, O. Antiochus IV of Syria. Copenhagen: Gyldendalske Boghandel, 1966.
U. Rappaport, "Maccabean Revolt." ABD
Schwartz, S. "Israel and the Nations Roundabout: 1 Maccabees and the Hasmonean Expansion." JJS 42 (1991) 16-38.
Sievers, J. The Hasmoneans and their Supporters: From Mattathias to the Death of John Hyrcanus I. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1990.
Tcherikover, V.A. Hellenistic Civilization and the Jews. Philadephia: JPS, 1966.
Will, E. and C. Orrieux. Ioudaismos-Hellenismos. Nancy, 1986.
DEAD SEA SCROLLS
Texts and Translations
Garcia Maritnez, F. and W.G.E. Watson (trans.). The Dead Sea Scrolls Translated: The Qumran Texts in English. 2nd ed. Brill, 1996.
Vermes, G. The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls. New York: Penguin, 1997.
Charlesworth et al., eds. the Dead Sea Scrolls: 1. The Rule of the Community and related Documents; 2. Damascus Document, War Scroll and Related Documents. Louisville: John Knox/Westminster, 1994-95. (Bilingual Edition)
Lohse, E. Die Texte aus Qumran. Munich: Kösel, 1971.
Bibliographies
Garcia Martinez, F. and Parry, D.W. A Bibliography of the Finds in the Desert of Judah, 1970-1995, Arranged by Author with Citation and Subject Indexes. Brill, 1996.
Jongeling, B. A Classified Bibliography of the Finds in the Desert of Judah, 1958-1969. Brill, 1971.
Fitzmyer, J.A. The Dead Sea Scrolls: major Publications and Tools for Study. Rev. ed. Atlanta: Scholars press, 1990.
Periodicals Tracking Bibliography
Dead Sea Discoveries.
Journal for the Study of Judaism
Journal for the Study of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic and Roman Periods
New Testament Abstracts
Revue de Qumran
Recent Introductions
Garcia Martinez, F. and J.T. Barrera. The People of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Brill, 1995.
Schiffman, L.H. Reclaiming the Dead Sea Scrolls. Philadelphia: JPS, 1994.
VanderKam, J. C. The Dead Sea Scrolls Today. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1994.
Fitzmyer, J.A. Responses to 101 Questions on the Dead Scrolls. Paulist, 1992.
Nickelsburg, G.W.E. Jewish Literature between the Bible and the Mishnah. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1981. (helpful outlines an summaries of major texts, pp. 122-142).
Vermes, The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English, 1-92.
Some Influential Older Works
Ringgren, H. The faith of Qumran: Theology of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1963.
Dupont-Sommer, A. The Essene Writings from Qumran. Trans. G. Vermes. New York: World Publishing Company, 1961.
Cross, F.M. The Ancient Library of Qumran. 3rd ed. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1995.
Milik, J.T. Ten Years of Discovery in the Wilderness of Judaea. Trans. J. Strugnell. London: SCM, 1959.
Josephus
Baumgarten, A.I. "Josephus on Essene Sacrifice." JJS 45 (1994) 169-183.
Beall, T.S. Josephus' Description of the Essenes Illustrated by the dead Sea Scrolls. SNTSMS 58. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1988.
Bergmeier, R. Die Essener-Berichte des Flavius Josephus. Kampen: Kok Pharos, 1993.
Goodman, M. "A Note on the Qumran Sectarians, the Essenes and Josephus." JSJ 46 (1995) 161-166.
Goranson, S. Posidonius, Strabo and marcus Vipsanius Agrippa as Sources on Essenes." JJS 45 (1994) 295-98.
Vermes, G. and M. Goodman, The Essenes According to the Classical Sources. 1989.
4QMMT
Qimron, E. and J. Strugnell, with Y. Sussmann and A. Yardeni. Miqsat Ma'ase ha-Torah. Qumran cave 4, vol. 5. DJD 10. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1994.
Kampen, J. and M.J. Bernstein, eds. Reading 4QMMT: New Perspectives on Qumran Law and History. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1996.
L.H. Schiffman, "The New Halakhic Letter (4QMMT) and the Origins of the Dead Sea Sect," BA 53 (1990) 64-73.
Messianism
Collins, J.J. the Sceptre and the Star: the Messiahs of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Other Ancient Literature. ABRL. New York: Doubleday, 1995.
Collins., J.J. Apocalypticism and the Dead Sea Scrolls. New York: Routledge, 1997.
Evans, C.A. and P.W. Flint, eds. Eschatology, Messianism and the Dead Sea Scrolls. Grand rapids: Eerdmans, 1997
Recent Conference Papers
Wise, M.O. and N. Golb, J.J. Collins and D.G. Pardee. Methods of Investigation of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Khirbet Qumran Site. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 722. New York: New York Academy of Scienes, 1994.
Ulrich, E. and J. Vanderkam. The Community of the Renewed Covenant: The Notre Dame Symposium on the Dead Sea Scrolls. Notre Dame: Notre Dame UP, 1994.
Some Other Recent Publications
Talmon, S. "The Dead Sea Scrolls" or the Community of the Renewed Covenant." The Albert T. Bilgray lecture, 1993. Tuscon: Uninversity of Arizona, 1993.
Harrington, H.K. The Impurity Systems of Qumran and the Rabbis. SBLDS 143. Atlanta: Scholars press, 1993.
Golb, N. Who Wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls? The Search for the Secret of Qumran. New York: Scribner, 1995.
Shanks, H., ed. Understanding the Dead Sea Scrolls. A Reader from the Biblical Archaeology Review. New York: Random House, 1992.
PHARISEES
Baumbach, G. "The Sadducees in Josephus." In Josephus, the Bible and History, edited by L.H. Feldman and G. Hata, 173-195. Detroit: Wayne State, 1989.
Baumgarten, J.M. "The Pharisaic-Sadducean Controversies about Purity and the Qumran Texts." JJS 31 (1980) 157-170.
_______________. "The Unwritten Law in the Pre-Rabbinic Period." JSJ 3 (1972) 7-29
Baumgarten, A.I. "Josephus and Hippolytus on the Pharisees." HUCA 55 (1984) 1-25.
_______________. "The Name of the Pharisees." JBL 102 (1983) 411-428.
_______________. "The Pharisaic Paradosis." HTR 80 (1987) 63-77.
_______________. "Korban and the Pharisaic Paradosis." JANES 16-17 (1984-85) 5-17.
_______________. "Rivkin and Neusner on the Pharisees." In Law in Religious Communities in the Roman Period, ed. P. Richardson, 109-26. Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfred Laurier UP, 1981.
Beckwith, R.T. "The Pre-History and Relationship of the Pharisees, Sadducees, and essenes: A tentative Reconstruction." RQ 11 (1982), 3-46.
Cook, M.J. "Jesus and the Pharisees -- the Problem as it Stands Today," JES 15 (1978) 441-460.
Dunn, J.D.G. "Pharisees, Sinner, and Jesus." In Jesus, Paul and the Law, 61-88. Westminster/John Knox, 1990.
Ellenson, D. "Ellis Rivkin and the Problem of Pharisaic History: A Study in Historiography." JAAR 43 (1975) 787-802.
Ephron, J. Studies on the Hasmonean Period. Brill, 1987.
Geller, M.J. "Alexander Jannaeus and the Pharisee Rift." JJS 30 (1979), 202-211.
Grabbe, 2.467-484.
Gruber, M.I. "The Mishna as Oral Torah: A Reconsideration." JSJ 15 (1984) 112-22.
Goodblatt, D. "The Place of the Pharisees in First-Century Judaism--The State of the Debate." JSJ 20 (1989) 12-30.
Harrington, H.K. "Did the Pharisees eat ordinary Food in a state of Ritual Purity?" JSJ 26 (1995) 42-54.
Kampen, J. The Hasideans and the Origins of Pharisaism. Atlanta: SP, 1988.
Lightstone, J. "Sadducees versus Pharisees: The Tannaitic Sources." In Judaism, Christianity and other Graeco-Roman Cults, edited by J. Neusner, vol. 3, 206-217. Leiden: Brill, 1975.
Main, E. "Les Sadduceaens vues par Flavius Josephe." RB 97 (1990) 161-206.
Mason, S. Flavius Josephus on the Pharisees. Leiden: Brill, 1991.
________. "Josephus on the Pharisees Reconsidered: A Critique of Smith/Neusner." SR 17 (1988) 455-69.
________. "Pharisaic Dominance before 70 CE and the Gospels' Hypocrisy Charge (Matt 23:2-3)." HTR 83 (1990) 363-381.
Neusner, J. The Rabbinic Traditions About the Pharisees Before 70«MDNM». 3 vols. Leiden: Brill, 1971.
__________. "Josephus' Pharisees: A Complete Repertoire." In Josephus, Judaism and Christianity, edited by L.H. Feldman and G. Hata, 274-292. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1987.
__________. "Mr. Maccoby's Red Cow, Mr. Sanders's Pharisees -- and Mine." JSJ 23 (1992) 81-98.
Newport, K.G.C. "The Pharisees in Judaism Prior to AD 70." Andrews University Seminar Studies«MDNM» 29 (1991) 127-137.
Poirer, J.C. "Why Did the Pharisees Wash their Hands?" JJS 47 (1996), 217-233.
Rivkin, E. A Hidden Revolution«MDNM». Nashville: Abington, 1978.
_________. "Defining the Pharisees: The Tannaitic Sources." HUCA 40 (1969) 205-249.
_________. "Prolegomenon." In Judaism and Christianity: Three Volumes in One«MDNM», eds. W.O.E. Oesterley, H. Loewe, and E.I.J. Rosenthal. New York: KTAV, 1969.
Rubenstein, J. "The Pharisees and the water Libation." JQR 84 (1994) 417-444.
Rubenstein, R.L. "Scribes, Pharisees and Hypocrites: A Study in Rabbinic Psychology." Judaism«MDNM» 12 (1963) 456-68.
Saldarini, A.J. Pharisees, Scribes, Sadducees. Wilmington: Michael Glazier, 1988.
Sanders, E.P. Judaism: Practice and Belief 63 BCE - 66CE. Philadelphia: Trinity Press International, 1992, 380-451.
____________. Jewish Law From Jesus to the Mishna. Philadelphia: Trinity Press International, 1990, 97-331.
Schiffman, L.H. "New Light on the Pharisees -- Insights from the Dead Sea Scrolls." BR (June, 1992) 30-35, 54.
Schwartz, D.R. "Josephus and Nicolaus on the Pharisees." JSJ 14 (1983) 157-171.
Schwartz, D.R. "MMT, Josephus and the Pharisees." In Reading 4QMMT, ed. J. Kampen and M.J. Bernstein, 67-80. Atlanta: SP, 1996.
Schwartz, S. Josephus and Judaean Politics. Leiden: Brill, 1990, 170-208.
Sievers, J. Who Were the Pharisees?" In Hillel and jesus, ed. J.H. Charlesworth and L.L. Johns, 137-155.
Smith, M. "Palestinian Judaism in the First Century." In Israel: Its Role in Civilization, edited by M. Davis, 67-81. New York: Harper and Row, 1956.
Stemberger, G. Jewish Contemporaries of Jesus: Pharisees, Sadducees, Essenes. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1995 (German ed., 1991).
Viviano, B.T. and J. Taylor. "Sadducees, Angels and Resurrection (Acts 23:8-9)." JBL 111 (1992) 496-98.
JOSEPHUS AND THE JEWISH WAR
Introductions
Note sections on Jewish War in standard histories, chapter on Josephus by Attridge in Jewish Writings of the Second Temple Period, and article on Josephus by Feldman in ABD.
Mason, S. Josephus and the New Testament. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1992.
Rhoads, D.M. Israel in Revolution: 6-74 CE: A Political History Based on the Writings of Josephus. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1976.
Recent Monographs
Cohen, S.J.D. Josephus in Galilee and Rome. Leiden: Brill, 1979.
Rajak, T. Josephus: The Historian and His Society . Philadelphia: Fortress, 1983.
Bilde, P. Flavius Josephus between Jerusalem and Rome. Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1988.
Schwartz, S. Josephus and Juaean Politics. Leiden: Brill, 1990.
S. Mason. Flavius Josephus on the Pharisees. Leiden: Brill, 1991.
Bibliographical and Other Tools
Feldman, L.H. Josephus and Modern Scholarship (1937-1980). Berlin and New York: de Gruyter, 1984.
___________. Josephus: A Supplementary Bibliography. New York, 1986.
____________. "A Selective Critical Bibliography of Josephus." In Josephus, the Bible and Judaism, ed. L.H. Feldman and G.Hata. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1989, 330-448.
____________. "Flavius Josephus Revisited: The Man, His Writings and His Significance." ANRW 2 (1984) 21.2.
Schreckenberg, H. Bibliography zu Flavius Josephus. Leiden: Brill, 1968.
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Rengstorf, K.H. A Complete Concordance to Flavius Josephus. 4 vols. Leiden: Brill, 1973-83.
Schalit, A. A Complete Concordance to Flavius Josephus. Supplement I: Namenwourterbuch zu Flavius Josephus. Leiden: Brill, 1968.
Recent Collections of Articles
Feldman, L.H. and G. Hata. Josephus, Judaism and Christianity. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1987.
______________________. Josephus, the Bible and History. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1989.
Parente, F. and J. Sievers. Josephus and the History of the Greco-Roman Period: Essays in Memory of Morton Smith. Brill, 1994.
Revolutionaries and Related Issues
For overviews, see Grabbe, 2.499-501;511-514, and J.D. Crossan, The Historical Jesus: The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant (San Francisco: Harper, 1991) 111-23, 168-224.
Donaldson, T.L. "Rural Bandits, City Mobs and the Zealots." JSJ 21 (1990) 19-40. (critique of Horsley)
Goodman, M. The Ruling Class of Judaea: The Origins of the Jewish Revolt Against Rome AD 66-70. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1987.
Gray, R. Prophetic Figures in Late Second temple Jewish Palestine: The Evidence from Josephus. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1993.
Hengel, M. The Zelots: Investigations into the Jewish Freedom Movement in the Period from Herod I until 70 A.D. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1989.
Horsley, R. and J.A. hanson. Bandits, Prophets, and Messiahs: Popular Movements in the Time of Jesus. Minneapolis: Winston, 1985.
Horsely, R. Jesus and the Spiral of Violence: Popular Jewish Resistance in Roman Palestine.(San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1987.
_________."`Messianic' Figures and Movements in First-Century Palestine," in The Messiah, ed. J.H. Charlesworth, 276-95. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1992.
Mendels, D. The Rise and Fall of Jewish Nationalism. New York: Doubleday, 1992.
Nikiprowetzky, V. "Josephus and the Revolutionary Parties." In Josephus, the Bible and History, eds. L.H. Feldman and G. Hata, 216-236. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1989.
Price, J.J. Jerusalem Under Siege: The Collapse of the Jewish State 66-70 CE. Brill, 1992.
Rhoads, D. M. "Zealots." ABD 6.1043-1054.
Shaw, B.D. "Tyrants, Bandits and Kings: Personal Power in Josephus." JJS 45 (1994) 176-204.
Smith, M. "Zealots and Sicarii: Their Origins and Relation." HTR 64 (1971) 1-19.
Stern, M. "Zealots." EJ Yearbook (1973) 135-152.
Masada
Ben-Yehuda, N. The Masada Myth: Collective Memory and Mythmaking in Israel. Madison: U of Wisconsin Press, 1995.
Cohen, S.J.D. "Masada: Literary Tradition, Archaeological Remains, and the Credibility of Josephus." JJS 33 (1982) 385-405.
Cotton, H.M. and J. Geiger, eds. Masada II: The Yigael Yadin Excavations 1963-1965. Final Reports: The Greek and Latin Documents. Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 1989.
Droge, A.J. and J.D. Tabor. A Noble Death: Suicide and Martyrdom among Christians and Jews in Antiquity. HarperSanFrancisco, 1992.
Feldman, L.H. "Masada: A Critique of Recent Scholarship." In Christianity, Judaism, and other Graeco-Roman Cults, edited by J. Neusner, 3.218-248. Leiden: Brill, 1975. (Bibliography from 1943-1973; see also the section on Masada in Feldman's bibliographies on Josephus.)
Goodblatt, D. "Suicide in the Sanctuary: traditions on Priestly martyrdom." JJS 46 (1995) 10-29. (Excellent bibliographical survey on suicide in Judaism in notes)
Hall, J.F. and J.W. Welch. Masada and the World of the New Testament. Provo: BYU Studies, 1997.
Ladouceur, D.J. "Josephus and Masada." Josephus, Judaism and Christianity, ed. L.H. Feldman and G. Hata. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1987.
______________. "Masada: A Consideration of the Literary Evidence." GRBS 21 (1980) 245-260.
Newell, R.R. "The Form and Historical Value of Josephus' Suicide Accounts." In Josephus, the Bible and History, eds. L.H. Feldman and G. Hata, 278-94 Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1989.
Vidal-Naquet, P. "Flavius Josephus and Masada." In The Jews: History, Memory, and the Present, 20-36. New York: Columbia UP, 1995.
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Yadin, Y., J. Naveh and Y. Meshorer, eds. Masada I: The Yigael Yadin Excavations 1963-1965. Final Reports. The Aramaic and Hebrew Ostraka and Jar Inscriptions. The Coins of Masada. Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 1989.
Yadin, Y. Masada: Herod's Fortress and the Zealots' Last Stand. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1966.
FOURTH EZRA
Collins, J.J. "After the Fall: 4 Ezra, 2 Baruch, and the Apocalypse of Abraham." In The Apocalyptic Imagination, 155-186. New York: Crossroad, 1984.
Knibb, M.A. "Messianism in the pseuepigrapha in the Light of the Scrolls." DSD 2 (1995) 165-184.
Nickelsburg, G.W.E. Jewish Literature between the Bible and the Mishna, 287-294.
Stone, M.E. Fourth Ezra. Hermeneia. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1990. (major commentary including extensive biblography)
_________. "The Question of the Messiah in 4 Ezra." In Judaism and their Messiahs at the Turn of the Christian Era,, ed. J. Neusenr, W.S. Green, and E. Frerichs, 209-224. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1987.
Thompson, A.L. Responsibility for Evil in the theodicy of IV Ezra. SBLDS 29. Missoula: Scholars Press, 1977.
MESSIAH IN RABBINIC LITERATURE
Agus, A. The Binding of Isaac and Messiah: law, Martyrdom, and Deliverance in Early Rabbinic Religiosity. Albany: SUNY, 1988.
Bialik H.N. and Y.H. Ravinitzky.: The Book of Legends: Sefer Ha-Aggadah. Trans. W.G. Braude. New York: Schocken, 1992, 387-402.
Bokser, B.M. "Messianism, the Exodus Pattern, and Early Rabbinic Judaism." In The Messiah, ed. J.H. Charlesworth, 239-258.
Buchanan, G.W. Revelation and Redemption: Jewish Documents of Deliverance from the fall of Jerusalem to the Death of Nahmanides. Dillsboro, NC: Western NC Press, 1978.
Heineman, J. "The Messiah of Ephraim and the Premature Exodus of the tribe of Ephraim." HTR 68 (1975) 1-15.
Klausner, J. The Messianic Idea in Judaism. New York: Macmillan, 1955, 391-517.
Landman, L. Messianism in the Talmudic Era. New York: KTAV, 1979.
Moore, G.F. Judaism, 2.270-395.
Montefiore, C.G. and H. Lowe. A Rabbinic Anthology. Philadelphia: JPS, 1960.
Patai, R. The Messiah Texts. New York: Avon, 1979.
Neusner, J. Messiah in Context. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1984.
Schiffman, L. "The Concept of the Messiah in Second Temple and Rabbinic Literature." Review and Expositor 84 (1987) 235-46.
Schäfer, P. "Die messianischen Hoffnungen des rabbinischen Judentums zwischen Nacherwartung und religiosem Pragmatismus." Studien zur Geschiche und theologie des rabbinischen Judentums, 214-243. Brill, 1978.
Schürer, History, 2.488-554.
Urbach, E.E. The Sages: Their Concepts and Beliefs. Jerusalem: Magnes, 1975.
BAR KOKHBA REVOLT
Surveys in Schäfer, Schürer and Smallwood. Chief sources in translation and good recent bibliography in Feldman and Reinhold, Jewish Life and Thought, 295-302. Commentary on texts of Dio and Historia Augusta in Stern, Greek and Latin Authors. Legal texts in A. Linder, The Jews in Roman Imperial Legislation.
Aleksandrov, G.S. "The Role of Aqiba in the Bar Kokhba Rebellion." In Eliezer ben Hyrcanus, J. Neusner, 2.422-436.
Applebaum, S. Prolegomena to the Study of the Second Jewish Revolt (A.D. 132 -135). 1976.
___________. "The Second Jewish Revolt (AD 131-35)." PEQ 160 (1984) 35-41.
___________. Points of View on the Second Jewish Revolt. SCI (1983/84) 77-87.
Bowersock, G.W. "A Roman Perspective on the bar Kokhba War." In Approaches to Ancient Judaism. Vol. 2, ed. W.S. Green, 131-141.
Fitzmyer, J. "The Bar Kokhba Period." In Essays on the Semitic Background of the New Testament, 305-354. Scholars Press, 1974.
Gichon, M. "New Insight into the bar Kokhba War and a Reapraisal of Dio Cassius 69:12-13." JQR 77 (1986/87) 15-41.
Harkabi, Y. The Bar Kokhba Syndrome.
Herr, M.D. "Persecution and Martyrdom in Hadrian's Days." SH 23 (1972) 85-125.
Isaac, B. "Cassius Dio on the Revolt of Bar Kokhba." SCI 7 (1983/84) 68-76.
Kloner, A. "Underground Hiding Complexes fromthe Bar Kokhba era in the Judean Shephela." BA 46 (1983) 210-222.
Lewis, N. The Documents from the Bar Kokhba Period in the Cave of Letters: Greek Papyri." 1989.
Mantel, H. "The Causes of the Bar Kokhba revolt." JQR 58 (1967/68) 224-242; 274-296; 59 (1968/69) 341-342.
Marks, R.G. The Image of Bar Kokhba in Traditional Jewish Literature: False Messiah and National Hero. University Park, PA: Penn State UP, 1994.
Mildenberg, L. "Bar Kokhba Coins and Documents." HSCP 84 (1980) 311-335.
Oppenheimer, A., ed. The Bar Kokhba Revolt. Issues in Jewish History 10. (Heb.)
______________ and B. Isaac. "The Revolt of Bar Kokhba: Ideology and Modern Scholarship." JJS 36 (1985) 33-60.
Schäfer, P. Der Bar Kokhba-Aufstand. Tübingen, 1981.
________. Hadrian's Policy in Judaea and the Bar Kokhba Revolt: A Reassessment. In A Tribute to Geza Vermes., ed. P.R. davies and R.T. White, 281-303. Sheffield, 1990.
________. Rabbi Akiva and Bar Kokhba." In Approaches to Ancient Judaism. Vol. 2, ed. W.S. Green, 113-130.
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Yadin, Y. Bar-Kokhba. The Rediscovery of the Legendary Hero of the Second Jewish Revolt Against Rome. 1971.
YAVNEH
Alon, G. The Patriarchate of Rabban Johanan ben Zakkai." Jews, Judaism, and the Classical World, 314-43. Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1977.
Aune, D. "On the Origins of the 'Council of Yavneh' Myth. JBL 110 (1991) 491-93.
Beckwith, R. "Formation of the Hebrew Bible." In Mikra, ed. M.J. Mulder, 39-86. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1988.
__________. The Old Testament Canon of the New Testament Church and its Background in Early Judaism. London, 1985.
Cohen, S.J.D. "The Significance of Yavneh: Pharisees, Rabbis and the End of Jewish Sectarianism." HUCA 55 (1984) 27-53.
Gevhard, C. The Aggados of the Talmud: The Destruction of the Second Commonwealth. Gittin 55b-55a. Kfar Chassidim, Israel: The Jewish Educational Workshop, 1993.
Grabbe, 592-95.
Gilat, Y.D. R. Eliezer ben Hyrcanus. Ramat Gan: Bar Ilan UP, 1984.
Godlenberg, R.. "The Deposition of Rabban Gamliel II: An Examination of the Sources." JJS 23 (1972) 167-90.
____________. "Early Rabbinic Explanations of the destruction of Jerusalem." JJS 33 (1982) 517-26.
Green, W.S. What's in a Name? - The Problematic of Rabbinic Biography." Approaches to Ancient Judaism. 1.77-96.
Kraemer, D. Responses to Suffering in Classical Rabbinic Literature. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1995.
Leiman, S. The Canonization of Scripture: the Talmudic and Midrashic Evidence.
Lewis, J.P. "What Really Happened at Yavneh?" JBL
Neusner, J. A Life of Rabban Yohanan ben Zakkai. Leiden: Brill, 1970.
__________. Development of a Legend. Studies on the Traditions Concerning Yohanan ben Zakkai. Leiden: Brill, 1970.
__________. Eliezer ben Hyrcanus. 2 vols.
__________. "The Formation of Rabbinic Judaism." ANRW 2.19.2 (1979) 3-42.
__________. First Century Judaism in Crisis: Yohanan ben Zakkai and the Renaissance of Torah
Newman, R.C. The Council of jamnia and the Old Testament canon." Westminster theological Journal 38 (1976) 319-49.
Schäfer, P. The History of the Jews in Antiquity, 131-140.
________. "Die sogennante Synode von Jabne." Studien zur Geschiche und theologie des rabbinischen Judentums, 45-64. Brill, 1978.
Studies of individual Tannaim: Meir (Goldenberg), Tarfon (Gereboff), Eleazar ben Azariah (Zahavy), Ishmael (Porton), Rabban Gamaliel II (Kanter), Joshua ben Hananiah (Green)
Yohanan ben Zakkai's Escape from Jerusalem
Alon, G. "Rabban Johanan B. Zakkai's Removal to Jabneh." In Jews, Judaism and the Classical World, 269-313. Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1977.
Doeve, J.W. " The Flight of Rabban Yohanan ben Zakkai - When and Why?" Uebersetzung und Deuttung. Festschrift A.R. Hulst
J. Neusner, "Story and Tradition in Judaism," in Judaism: The Evidence of the Mishna (Chicago, 1981), 301-328.
__________. "The Sage and the Emperor: Yohanan ben Zakkai, Julian the Apostate and the Destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem." In Understanding Seeking Faith, vol. 2, 143-164. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1987.
__________. Development of a Legend,
__________. A Life of Rabban Yohanan ben Zakkai, (critique of Alon)
Schäfer, P. "Die Flucht Johanan b. Zakkai aus Jerusalem und die Gruundung des `Lehrhauses' in Jabneh." ANRW 2.19.2 (1979), 43-101.
Schalit, A. "Die Erhebung Vespasians nach Flavius Josephus, Talmud und Midrasch. Zur Geschichte einer messianische Prophetie." ANRW 2.19.2 (1979) 208-327.
Saldarini, A. "Johanan ben Zakkai's Escape from Jerusalem. Origin and Development of a Rabbinic Story." JSJ 6 (1975) 189-204.
Beruriah
Adler, R. "The Virgin in the Brothel and Other Anomalies: Character and Context in the Legend of Beruriah." Tikkun 3/6 (1988) 28-32, 102-105.
Boyarin, D. "Reading Androcentrism against the Grain: Women, Sex, and Torah-Study." Poetics 12 (199 ), 29-53.
Goodblatt, D. "The Beruriah Traditions." JJS 26 (1975) 68-85.
Ilan, T. Jewish Women in Greco-Roman Palestine. Peabody: Hendrickson, 1995. (Beruriah, 197-200)
_____. "The Quest for the Historical Beruriah, Rachel, and Imma Shalom." AJSReview 22 (1997) 1-17.
Wegner, J.R. "The Image and Status of Women in Classical Rabbinic Judaism." In Jewish Women in Historical Perspective, ed. by J. Baskin, 68-93. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1991.