Jewish Background
Important Jewish writings that illuminate the social and cultural environment in which Jesus and the disciples lived. --JH
The New Complete Works of JosephusThe Dead Sea Scrolls  -  Revised Edition: A New TranslationThe Dead Sea Scrolls Bible: The Oldest Known Bible Translated for the First Time into English
The New Complete Works of Josephus
by Flavius Josephus
$16.49
Josephus' writings provide the historical and cultural background to the life of Jesus and the disciples. He was an eye-witne...
The Dead Sea Scrolls - Revised Edition: A...
by Michael O. Wise
$17.99
This edition finally includes all the Dead Sea Scrolls--including some that were tied up by academics for many years, and as a...
The Dead Sea Scrolls Bible: The Oldest Know...
by Martin G. Abegg
$18.71
The most important of the Dead Sea Scrolls were copies of the books of the Bible. These proved that our modern Bibles were ess...
The Works of Philo: Complete and Unabridged, New Updated EditionThe Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, Vol. 2: Expansions of the Old Testament and Legends, Wisdom and Philosophical Literature, Prayers, Psalms, and Odes, Fragments of Lost Judeo-Hellenistic worksFrom the Maccabees to the Mishnah, Second Edition
The Works of Philo: Complete and Unabridged...
by C.D. Yonge
$12.22
Philo of Alexandria (in Egypt) was a Jewish philosopher that captured the attitude and beliefs of many of the Jews living outs...
The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, Vol. 2: E...
by James H. Charlesworth

The Pseudepigrapha is a diverse collection of Jewish writings that reveals the thought-world of popular Jewish religion in the...
From the Maccabees to the Mishnah, Second E...
by Shaye J. D. Cohen
$20.42
A classical introduction to the Jewish world from which Christianity emerged. -JH
Masada: Herod's Fortress and the Zealots' Last StandJewish Legends of the Second Commonwealth (Legends of the Rabbis, Vol 1)Bar-Kokhba: Tthe rediscovery of the legendary hero of the second Jewish Revolt against Rome
Masada: Herod's Fortress and the Zealots' L...
by Yigael Yadin

This is not your ordinary excavation report. Masada was one of the early and most moving archeological discoveries in Israel, ...
Jewish Legends of the Second Commonwealth (...
by Judah Nadich
$25.00
A very accessible introduction to the rabbis that lived in and around the time of Jesus. --JH
Bar-Kokhba: Tthe rediscovery of the legenda...
by Yigael Yadin

Another fascinating book by Yigael Yadin from the heady early days of Israeli archeology. Bar Kokhba was the last independent ...