Second Temple Sectarianism (332 BCE-c. 70 CE)

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