Discovering Second Temple Literature

Winner of the 2018 Judaica Reference Honor Award from the Association of Jewish Libraries  “For those unfamiliar with the many divisions within Judaism at that time or with Jewish life in other parts of the Roman Empire, this book offers an excellent introduction to a little-studied time period. Readers of Jewish history will definitely want to add this work to their shelves.”—Rabbi Rachel Esserman, The Reporter Exploring the world of the Second Temple period (539 BCE–70 CE), in particular