Second Temple Literature
Bibliography

A fragment from the Cairo Geniza

 
 

Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls

The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls In English - Translated by Geza Vermes
Penguin Classics - ISBN 976-0-141-19731-9 (paperback)

The Story of the Scrolls - by Geza Vermes
Penguin - ISBN 978-0-141-04615-0 (paperback)

Reclaiming The Dead Sea Scrolls by Lawrence H. Schiffman
Yale University Press - ISBN - 978-0-300-14022-4 (paperback)

Qumran and Jerusalem - Studies in the Dead Sea Scrolls and the History of Judaism by Lawrence H. Schiffman
Eerdmans Publishing Co. - ISBN - 978-0-8028-4976-2 (paperback)
 

The Cairo Genizah - CD and 4QMMT

The Cambridge Genizah Collections: Their Contents and Significance - Edited by Stefan C. Reif
Cambridge University Press - ISBN - 978-0-521-15297-6 (paperback)

From Cairo to Manchester: Studies in the Rylands Geniza Fragments - Edited by Renate Smithuis and Philip S. Alexander.
Oxford University Press - ISBN - 978-0-19-870153-8 (paperback)

A Jewish Archive from Old Cairo: The History of Cambridge University's Genizah Collection (Culture and Civilization in the Middle East) by Stefan C. Reif
Routledge - ISBN - 978-0-70-071312-7 (paperback)

Sacred Treasure - The Cairo Geniza - Rabbi Mark Glickman
Jewish Lights Publishing - ISBN - 978-1-58023-512-9

Reading 4QMMT - New Perspectives On Qumran Law And History by John Kampen (Editor), Moshe J. Bernstein (Editor) Scholars Press (Dec. 1996) ISBN - 978-0788502231

The Damascus Texts - by Charlotte Hempel
Sheffield Academic Press - ISBN - 978-184327-055-5 (paperback)
  The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha

The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha Volumes 1 and 2 - Edited by James H. Charlesworth
Hendrickson Publishers - ISBN - 978-1-59856-491-4 (vol 1) and 978-1-59856-490-7 (vol 2) (both paperbacks usually sold together as 9781598564891 (recommended))

The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament (1913 edition) Volume 1 (Apocrypha) and 2 (Pseudepigrapha) - by R H Charles
Oxford University Press - available in various reprints, both paperback and hardcover.

The Jewish Pseudepigrapha - An Introduction to the Literature of the Second Temple Period - by Susan Docherty
Fortress Press - ISBN - 978-1-4514-9028-2 (paperback)

The Apocalyptic Imagination: An Introduction to Jewish Apocalyptic Literature - by John J. Collins
Eerdmans Publishing Co. - ISBN - 978-0-8028-4371-5 (paperback)

Apocalypse, Prophecy, and Pseudepigraphy: On Jewish Apocalyptic Literature - by John J. Collins
Eerdmans Publishing Co. - ISBN - 978-0-8028-7285-2 (paperback)
 

The Tanakh (MT)

JPS Hebrew-English Tanakh - The traditional Hebrew text - complete Leningrad Codex
Jewish Publication Society - ISBN 978-0-8276-656-2
 

The Septuagint (LXX)

A New English Translation of the Septuagint (NETS)
Oxford University Press - ISBN - 978-0-19-528975-6 (hardback)
  The Elephantine Papyri

The Elephantine Papyri In English - by Bezalel Porten
Society of Biblical Literature - ISBN 978-1-58983-628-0 (paperback)
 

Other works on Second Temple history and Judaism

From Text To Tradition - A History of Second Temple and Rabbinic Judaism - by Lawrence H. Schiffman
KTAV Publishing - ISBN - 088125372-3 (paperback)

Texts and Traditions - A Source Reader For the Study of Second Temple and Rabbinic Judaism- by Lawrence H. Schiffman
KTAV Publishing - ISBN - 0-88125-455-X (paperback)

Integrating Women Into Second Temple History - by Tal Ilan
Hendrickson Publishers - ISBN - 978-0-8010-4666-7 (paperback)

Jewish Women In Greco-Roman Palestine - Tal Ilan
Hendrickson Publishers - ISBN - 1-56563-240-0 (paperback)

Jewish Wisdom in the Hellenistic Age - John J Collins
Westminster John Knox Press - ISBN 978-0-664-23842-1 (paperback)