The Hellenistic Period in Israel: Historical Studies

I.    The Hellenistic period in Israel: historical and archaeological studies

Baslez, M.-F., Bible et histoire: Judaïsme, hellénisme, christianisme (Paris: Fayard, 1999); = Bibbia e storia. Giudaismo, ellenismo, cristianesimo (Introduzione allo studio della Bibbia. Supplementi, 8; Brescia: Paideia, 2002).

Blenkinsopp, J., "The Development of Jewish Sectarianism from Nehemiah to the Hasidim", in O. Lipschits – G. N. Knoppers – R. Albertz (eds.), Judah and the Judeans in the Fourth Century b.c.e. (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2007) 385-404.

Davies, P. R. – J. M. Halligan (eds.), Second Temple Studies, III: Studies in Politics, Class and Material Culture (JSOTSup 340; London: Sheffield Academic Press, 2002).

Dušek, J., Les manuscrits araméens du Wadi Daliyeh et la Samarie vers 450–332 av. J.-C. (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East, 30; Leiden: Brill, 2007).

Finkelstein, I., "The Territorial Extent and Demography of Yehud/Judea in the Persian and Early Hellenistic Periods", RB 117 (2010) 39-54.

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Greenspoon, L. J., "Between Alexandria and Antioch: Jews and Judaism in the Hellenistic Period", in M. D. Coogan (ed.), The Oxford History of the Biblical World (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998) 421-465 [= 317-351 in the 2001 paperback edition].

Gropp, D. M. – M. J. Bernstein (eds.), Wadi Daliyeh II: The Samaria Papyri from Wadi Daliyeh / by Douglas M. Gropp; Qumran Cave 4, XXVIII: Miscellanea, Part 2 / by Moshe Bernstein, et al. In consultation with James Vanderkam and Monica Brady (DJD XXVIII; Oxford: Clarendon, 2001).

Haag, E., Das hellenistische Zeitalter. Israel und die Bibel im 4. bis 1. Jahrhundert v. Chr. (Biblische Enzyklopädie, 9; Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 2003).

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Lipschits, O. – G. N. Knoppers – R. Albertz (eds.), Judah and the Judeans in the Fourth Century b.c.e. (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2007).

Lipschits, O. – O. Tal, "The Settlement Archaeology of the Province of Judah: A Case Study", in O. Lipschits – G. N. Knoppers – R. Albertz (eds.), Judah and the Judeans in the Fourth Century b.c.e. (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2007) 33-52.

Porter, A., "What Sort of Jews Were the Tobiads?", in D. R. Edwards – C. T. McCollough (eds.), The Archaeology of Difference: Gender, Ethnicity, Class and the "Other" in Antiquity. Studies in Honor of Eric M. Meyers (Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research, 60/61; Boston: American Schools of Oriental Research, 2007) 141-150.

Primo, A., La storiografia sui Seleucidi: da Megastene a Eusebio di Cesarea (Studi ellenistici, 10; Pisa: Serra, 2009).

Sacchi, P., "Cap. 3: La storia del popolo ebraico dopo l'esilio", in R. Fabris (ed.), Introduzione generale alla Bibbia. Seconda edizione rinnovata (Logos, Corso di Studi Biblici, 1A: Leumann [Torino]: Editrice Elledici, 2006) 91-124.

Saulnier, C. – C. Perrot, Historie d'Israël, III: De la conquête d'Alexandre à la destruction du temple (331 a.C. – 135 a.D.) (Paris: Cerf, 1985); = Storia d'Israele, III: Dalla conquista di Alessandro alla destruzione del tempio (331 a.C. – 135 d.C.) (Roma: Borla, 1988).

II.    Specific studies on the reign of Antiochus IV Epiphanes

Bringmann, K., Hellenistische Reform und Religionsverfolgung in Judäa. Eine Untersuchung zur jüdisch-hellenistischen Geschichte (175-163 v.Chr.) (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, 1983).

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Hengel, M., "Judaism and Hellenism revisited", in J. J. Collins – G. E. Sterling (eds.), Hellenism in the Land of Israel (Christianity and Judaism in Antiquity Series, 13; Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2001) 6-37.

Keel, O., "Die kultischen Massnahmen Antiochus' IV in Jerusalem: Religionsverfolgung und/oder Reformversuch? Eine Skizze", in J. Krašovec (ed.), The Interpretation of the Bible: The International Symposium in Slovenia (JSOTSup 289; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1998) 217-242; = [same title], in O. Keel – U. Staub (eds.), Hellenismus und Judentum. Vier Studien zu Daniel 7 und zur Religionsnot unter Antiochus IV (OBO 178; Freiburg, Schweiz: Universitätsverlag; Göttingen:Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2000) 87-121.

Mittag, P. F., Antiochos IV. Epiphanes. Eine politische Biographie (Klio. Beiträge zur Alten Geschichte, Beihefte, Neue Folge, 11; Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2006).

Mørkholm, O., Antiochus IV of Syria (Classica et mediaevalia, Dissertations, 8; København: Gyldendal, 1966).

Schwartz, D. R. "Antiochus IV Epiphanes in Jerusalem", in D. Goodblatt – A. Pinnick – D. R. Schwartz (eds.), Historical Perspectives: From the Hasmoneans to Bar Kokhba in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium of the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature, 27-31 January, 1999 (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, 37; Leiden: Brill, 2001) 45-56.

Scurlock, J., "167 BCE: Hellenism or Reform?", JSJ 31 (2000) 125-161.