Reading List: Jewish History, Biblical through Roman Periods
Biblical Scholarship/History/Archaeology
Old Testament Parallels (New Revised and Expanded Third Edition): Laws and Stories from the Ancient Near East by Victor H. Matthews and Don C. Benjamin
From Eden to Exile: Unraveling Mysteries of the Bible by Eric Cline
Did God Have a Wife?: Archaeology and Folk Religion in Ancient Israel by William Dever
Who Were the Early Israelites and Where Did They Come From? by William Dever
The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology’s New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts by Neil Silberman and Israel Finkelstein
Who Wrote the Bible? by Richard Eliot Friedman
Bronze Age Collapse-Babylonian Exile
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Turning Points in Ancient History) by Eric Cline
The End of the Bronze Age by Robert Drews
A History of Ancient Israel and Judah, Second Edition by J. Maxwell Miller and John Haralson Hayes
The Social History of Ancient Israel: An Introduction by Rainer Kessler
The Philistines and Aegean Migration at the End of the Late Bronze Age by Assaf Yasur-Landau
Ancient Israel’s History and Historiography: The First Temple Period (Collected Essays) Volume 3 by Nadav Na’aman
A Brief History of Ancient Israel by Victor H. Matthews
Babylonian Exile-Roman Period
Jews, Judaism, and the Classical World by Gedalyahu Alon
The First Jewish Revolt: Archaeology, History and Ideology by Andrea M. Berlin
The Jews in the Greek Age by Elias Bickerman
Rome and Jerusalem: The Clash of Ancient Civilizations by Martin Goodman
The Ruling Class of Judaea: The Origins of the Jewish Revolt against Rome, A.D. 66-70 by Martin Goodman
A History of Ancient Israel and Judah, Second Edition by J. Maxwell Miller and John Haralson Hayes
Achaemenid Imperial Administration in Syria-Palestine & the Missions of Ezra & Nehemiah (Dissertation (Paperback)) by Kenneth G. Hoglund
From the Rivers of Babylon to the Highlands of Judah: Collected Studies on the Restoration Period by Sara Japhet
The Jewish War: Revised Edition (Penguin Classics) translated by Betty Radice; by Flavius Josephus
Josephus: The Complete Works translated by William Whiston; by Flavius Josephus
Jewish Babylonia between Persia and Roman Palestine by Richard Kalmin
Centrality Practiced: Jerusalem in the Religious Practice of Yehud and the Diaspora during the Persian Period (Archaeology and Biblical Studies) by Melody D. Knowles
Religious and Ethnic Communities in Later Roman Palestine (Studies and Texts in Jewish History and Culture, 5) by Hayim Lapin
Judah and the Judeans in the Persian Period by Oded Lipschits
A Brief History of Ancient Israel by Victor H. Matthews
The History of the Jews in the Greco-Roman World: The Jews of Palestine from Alexander the Great to the Arab Conquest by Peter Schäfer
The Ancient Jews from Alexander to Muhammad (Key Themes in Ancient History) by Seth Schwartz
Understanding Second Temple and Rabbinic Judaism by Lawrence H. Schiffman
Surviving Sacrilege: Cultural Persistence in Jewish Antiquity by Steven Weitzman
Diaspora Judaism in Turmoil, 116/117 CE: Ancient Sources and Modern Insights (Interdisciplinary Studies in Ancient Culture and Religion) by Miriam Pucci Ben Zeev