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- From Text to Tradition
- Apocalyptics and Ascetics
- Historical surveys
- Lee I. Levine. “The Age of Hellenism- Alexander the Great and the Rise and Fall of the Hasmonean Kingdom.” Part V
- Shaye Cohen. “Roman Domination- The Jewish Revolt and the Destruction of the Second Temple.”
- Primary sources
- Josephus, Antiquities XVIII, 18-22- The Doctrine of the Essenes
- Josephus, War II, 119-61- The Life of the Essenes
- Pliny, Natural History V, xv- The Solitary Essenes
- Philo, Every Good Man is Free XII, 75-87- Description of the Essenes
- Rule of the Community I-VII- The Teaching and Structure of the Dead Sea Sect (Garcia Martinez)
- Secondary sources
- The Dead Sea Scrolls and the People Who Wrote Them, Frank Moore Cross, Biblical Archaeology Review (3:1), Mar 1977.