History: Rabbinic Period

1. Alon, Gedaliah. The Jews in their Land in the Talmudic Age . Translated by Gershon Levi. Magnes Press: Jerusalem, 1980. Reprint. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1989.
2. Avi-Yonah, Michael. The Jews of Palestine: A Political History from the Bar Kokhba War to the Arab Conquest. Translated by Michael Avi-Yonah. New York: Schocken Press, 1976. (This edition is based on German edition Geschichte der Juden im Zeitalter des Talmuds. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter & Co., 1962. Hebrew editions were published in 1946, 1952, 1962, 1969.)
3. Cohen, Gerson D. "The Talmudic Age." In Great Ages and Ideas of the Jewish People, edited by Leo W. Schwartz, 141-212. Modern Library: New York, 1956.
4. Baras, Zvi, and Samuel Safrai, Menahem Stern, Yoram Tsafrir., ed. 2 vols. Jerusalem: Yad Yitzhak ben-Zvi, 1982-1984. Eretz Israel From the Destruction of the Second Temple to the Muslim Conquest [Hebrew].
   Vol. I: Political, Social and Cultural History (ed. by Baras, et. al.); Vol. II: Archeology and Art (by Yoram Tsafrir)
5. Goldin, Judah. "The Period of the Talmud." In The Jews: Their History, Culture, and Religion I, edited by Louis Finkelstein, 115-215. Philadelphia: JPS, 1949. (Pp. 119-224 in 1970 paperback ed.)
6. Schürer, Emil.The History of the Jewish People in the Age of Jesus Christ. Edited by Geza Vermes, Fergus Miller and Martin Goodman. Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1971-1987.
   Vol. II: III Halakhah and Haggadah, and IV The Major Torah Scholars, 337-380.
7. Seltzer, Robert M. "From the Hellenistic Period to Late Antiquity." In Jewish People, Jewish Thought: The Jewish Experience in History, 171-314. New York: Macmillan, 1980.

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