From the Maccabees to the Mishnah

by Shaye J.D. Cohen

The Jewish People in the First Century, ed. S. Safrai and M. Stern, 2 vols. (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1974–76);

Texts and Traditions: A Source Reader for the Study of Second Temple and Rabbinic Judaism (Hoboken, NJ: Ktav Publishing House, 1998).