- From Text to Tradition
- Historical surveys
- 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