[see also: Histories of ancient Israel and The Persian period]
The bibliography is divided into two sections as follows:
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).
Baumgarten, A., The Flourishing of Jewish Sects in the Maccabean Era: An Interpretation (JSJSup 55; Leiden: Brill, 1997).
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.
Blenkinsopp, J., Judaism: The First Phase. The Place of Ezra and Nehemiah in the Origins of Judaism (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2009).
Cohen, S. J. D., The Beginnings of Jewishness: Boundaries, Varieties, Uncertainties (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1999).
Collins, J. J. – D. C. Harlow (eds.), The Eerdmans Dictionary of Early Judaism (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2010).
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).
Eshel, H., The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Hasmonean State (Studies in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Related Literature; Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2008).
Finkelstein, I., "The Territorial Extent and Demography of Yehud/Judea in the Persian and Early Hellenistic Periods", RB 117 (2010) 39-54.
Grabbe, L. L., Judaism from Cyrus to Hadrian (Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 1992 / London: SCM, 1994).
Grabbe, L. L., A History of the Jews and Judaism in the Second Temple Period. Volume 2: The Coming of the Greeks: The Early Hellenistic Period (335–175 BCE) (Library of Second Temple Studies, 68; London: T & T Clark, 2008).
Grabbe, L. L., An Introduction to Second Temple Judaism: History and Religion of the Jews in the Time of Nehemiah, the Maccabees, Hillel, and Jesus (London & New York: T & T Clark, 2010).
Grabbe, L. L. – O. Lipschits (eds.), Judah Between East and West: The Transition from Persian to Greek Rule (ca. 400-200 BCE). A Conference Held at Tel Aviv University, 17-19 April 2007 Sponsored by the ASG (Academic Study Group for Israel and the Middle East) and Tel Aviv University (Library of Second Temple Studies, 75; London: T & T Clark International, 2011).
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).
Knauf, E. A., "Biblical References to Judean Settlement in Eretz Israel (and Beyond) in the Late Persian and Early Hellenistic Periods", in P. R. Davies – D. V. Edelman (eds.), The Historian and the Bible: Essays in Honour of Lester L. Grabbe (LHB/OTS 530; London: T & T Clark, 2010) 175-193.
Knoppers, G. N., "Aspects of Samaria's Religious Culture During the Early Hellenistic Period", in P. R. Davies – D. V. Edelman (eds.), The Historian and the Bible: Essays in Honour of Lester L. Grabbe (LHB/OTS 530; London: T & T Clark, 2010) 159-174.
Leith, M. J. W., Wadi Daliyeh, I: The Wadi Daliyeh Seal Impressions (DJD XXIV; Oxford: Clarendon, 1997).
Levin, Y. (ed.), A Time of Change: Judah and Its Neighbours in the Persian and Early Hellenistic Periods (Library of Second Temple Studies, 65; London: T & T Clark, 2007).
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).
Bringmann, K., Hellenistische Reform und Religionsverfolgung in Judäa. Eine Untersuchung zur jüdisch-hellenistischen Geschichte (175-163 v.Chr.) (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, 1983).
Doran, R., "The Persecution of Judeans by Antiochus IV: The Significance of 'Ancestral Laws'", in D. C. Harlow – K. M. Hogan – M. Goff – J. S. Kaminsky (eds.), The "Other" in Second Temple Judaism: Essays in Honor of John J. Collins (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2011) 423-433.
Efron, J., Studies on the Hasmonean Period (Studies in Judaism in Late Antiquity, 39; Leiden: Brill, 1987).
Fischer, T., Seleukiden und Makkabäer. Beiträge zur Seleukidengeschichte und zu den politischen Ereignissen in Judäa während der 1. Hälfte des 2. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. (Bochum: Studienverlag Brockmeyer, 1980).
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.