Second Temple Sectarianism (332 BCE-c. 70 CE)

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1. From Text to Tradition
   1. Apocalyptics and Ascetics
2. Historical surveys
   1. Lee I. Levine. “The Age of Hellenism: Alexander the Great and the Rise and Fall of the Hasmonean Kingdom.” Part V
   2. Shaye Cohen. “Roman Domination: The Jewish Revolt and the Destruction of the Second Temple.”
   3. Louis H. Feldman. “Palestinian and Diaspora Judaism in the First Century.” Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism: a Parallel History of their Origins and Early Development. Ed. Hershal Shanks. Washington D.C.: Biblical Archaeology Society, 1993.
3. Primary sources
   1. Josephus, Antiquities XVIII, 18-22: The Doctrine of the Essenes
   2. Josephus, War II, 119-61: The Life of the Essenes
   3. Pliny, Natural History V, xv: The Solitary Essenes
   4. Philo, Every Good Man is Free XII, 75-87: Description of the Essenes
   5. Rule of the Community I-VII: The Teaching and Structure of the Dead Sea Sect (Garcia Martinez)
   6. Damascus Document I-XII: The History and Self-image of the Dead Sea Sectarians (Garcia Martinez)
4. Secondary sources
   1. Frank Moore Cross. The Dead Sea Scrolls and the People Who Wrote Them.” Biblical Archaeology Review 3, 1 (1977).