The Online Books Page

Judaism -- History -- To 70 A.D.

See also what's at your library, or elsewhere.

• Judaism -- History
• Jews -- History -- To 70 A.D.

• Asherahs (Jewish liturgical objects)

• The History of the Jewish Church (3 volumes; New York: C. Scribner's sons, 1879-1882), by Arthur Penrhyn Stanley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prolegomena to the History of Israel, With a Reprint of the Article "Israel" from the "Encyclopaedia Britannica", by Julius Wellhausen, trans. by J. Sutherland Black and Allan Menzies, contrib. by W. Robertson Smith (Gutenberg text)
• Prolegomena to the History of Israel, With a Reprint of the Article "Israel" from the "Encyclopaedia Britannica" (Edinburgh: A. and C. Black, 1885), by Julius Wellhausen, trans. by J. Sutherland Black and Allan Menzies, contrib. by W. Robertson Smith
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com

• The Asherah in the Old Testament (Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 1949), by W. L. Reed (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Introduction to Judaism (1961), by Lee Archer Belford (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• Festschrift zu Israel Lewy's Siebzigstem Geburtstag (in German; Breslau: M. und H. Marcus, 1911), ed. by M. Brann and Ismar Elbogen
  • page images in Germany
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Hebrew Union College Jubilee Volume (1875-1925) (Cincinnati, 1925), ed. by David Philipson, H. G. Enelow, Kaufmann Kohler, Jacob Zallel Lauterbach, Jacob Mann, Julian Morgenstern, and William Rosenau (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Diversity and Rabbinization: Jewish Texts and Societies Between 400 and 1000 CE (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2021), ed. by Gavin McDowell, Ron Naiweld, and Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Hebrew Union College Annual (partial serial archives)

• Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (partial serial archives)

• Nachman Krochmal: Guiding the Perplexed of the Modern Age (New York and London: New York University Press, 1991), by Jay Michael Harris (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)

• Understanding the Times of Christ, by William W. Menzies (HTML at archive.org)

• Constructs of Identity in Hellenistic Judaism: Essays on Early Jewish Literature and History (Deuterocanonical and cognate literature studies v29; Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, c2016), by Erich S. Gruen (PDF files at JSTOR)
• Ancient Jewish Prayers and Emotions: Emotions Associated with Jewish Prayer in and Around the Second Temple Period (Deuterocanonical and cognate literature studies v26; Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, c2015), ed. by Stefan C. Reif and Renate Egger-Wenzel (PDF files at JSTOR)
• The Jewish Religion in the Time of Jesus (Boston: American Unitarian Association, 1909), by Georg Hollmann, trans. by Edward Lummis
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Rabbinic Essays (Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press, 1951), by Jacob Zallel Lauterbach (page images at HathiTrust)
• Diversity and Rabbinization: Jewish Texts and Societies Between 400 and 1000 CE (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2021), ed. by Gavin McDowell, Ron Naiweld, and Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• The People That History Forgot, by Ernest L. Martin (HTML with commentary at askelm.com)

• Rabbinic Judaism in the Making: The Halakhah from Ezra to Judah I (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, c1970), by Alexander Guttmann (multiple formats at Wayne State)
• Der Leidende und der Sterbende Messias der Synagoge im Ersten Nachchristlichen Jahrtausend (in German; Berlin: H. Reuther, 1888), by Gustaf Dalman (page images at HathiTrust)

• Gershom Scholem and the Mystical Dimension of Jewish History (New York and London: New York University Press, 1987), by Joseph Dan (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)

• Das Antike Judentum (Gesammelte Aufsätze zue Religionssoziologie v3; in German; Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr, 1921), by Max Weber
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Tradition and Politics: The Religious Parties of Israel (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, c1977), by Gary S. Schiff (multiple formats at Wayne State)

• Beyond Patriarchy: Jewish Fathers and Families (Hanover, NH, and London: Brandeis University Press, University Press of New England, c2000), by Lawrence H. Fuchs (page images and PDF at Brandeis)

• Woman's Cause: The Jewish Woman's Movement in England and the United States, 1881-1933 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1990), by Linda Gordon Kuzmack (PDF at Ohio State)

• Woman's Cause: The Jewish Woman's Movement in England and the United States, 1881-1933 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1990), by Linda Gordon Kuzmack (PDF at Ohio State)

• Please Don't Wish Me a Merry Christmas: A Critical History of the Separation of Church and State (New York and London: New York University Press, c1997), by Stephen M. Feldman (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)

• Denial and Repression of Antisemitism: Post-Communist Remembrance of the Serbian Bishop Nikolaj Velimirović (Budapest: Central European University Press, c2008), by Jovan Byford (multiple formats with commentary at openedition.org)

• The Shaping of Jewish Identity in Nineteenth Century France (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1989), by Jay R. Berkovitz (multiple formats with commentary at Wayne State)

• Gender, Judaism, and Bourgeois Culture in Germany, 1800-1870 (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, c2006), by Benjamin Maria Baader (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• The Origin of the Modern Jewish Woman Writer: Romance and Reform in Victorian England (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1996), by Michael Galchinsky (multiple formats with commentry at Wayne State)

• Preachers of the Italian Ghetto (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), ed. by David B. Ruderman (HTML at UC Press)

• Preachers of the Italian Ghetto (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), ed. by David B. Ruderman (HTML at UC Press)

• United States Jewry, 1776-1985 (4 volumes; Detroit: Wayne State University Press, c1989-1993), by Jacob Rader Marcus
  • Volume I (1776-1840): multiple formats with commentary at Wayne State
  • Volume II (The Germanic Period, 1841-1860): multiple formats with commentary at Wayne State
  • Volume III (The Germanic Period, Part 2, 1860-1920): multiple formats with commentary at Wayne State
  • Volume IV (The East European Period; The Emergence of the American Jew; Epilogue): multiple formats with commentary at Wayne State

• The Eternal Dissident: Rabbi Leonard I. Beerman and the Radical Imperative to Think and Act (Oakland: University of California Press, c2018), by Leonard I. Beerman, ed. by David N. Myers (multiple formats with commentary at luminosoa.org)

• The Cabala: Its Influence on Judaism and Christianity (1913), by Bernhard Pick (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• The Kabbalah: or, The Religious Philosophy of the Hebrews, by Adolphe Franck, trans. by Isaac Sossnitz (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

• De Republica Ebraeorum (in Latin; Leiden: J. Maire, 1641), by Bonaventure Corneille Bertram, ed. by Constantijn 1591-1648 L'Empereur (page images at HathiTrust)
• The History of the Jewish Church (3 volumes; New York: C. Scribner's sons, 1879-1882), by Arthur Penrhyn Stanley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prolegomena to the History of Israel, With a Reprint of the Article "Israel" from the "Encyclopaedia Britannica", by Julius Wellhausen, trans. by J. Sutherland Black and Allan Menzies, contrib. by W. Robertson Smith (Gutenberg text)
• Prolegomena to the History of Israel, With a Reprint of the Article "Israel" from the "Encyclopaedia Britannica" (Edinburgh: A. and C. Black, 1885), by Julius Wellhausen, trans. by J. Sutherland Black and Allan Menzies, contrib. by W. Robertson Smith
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com
• The Pharisees: The Sociological Background of Their Faith (second edition, 2 volumes; Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1940), by Louis Finkelstein (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the People of Israel (5 volumes; Boston: Roberts Bros., 1896), by Ernest Renan, trans. by Joseph Henry Allen and Elizabeth Wormeley Latimer
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume I (Till the Time of King David): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (From the Reign of David up to the Capture of Samaria): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV (From the Rule of the Persians to That of the Greeks): multiple formats at archive.org
• Jerusalem: The Topography, Economics, and History From the Earliest Times to A.D. 70 (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1907-1908), by George Adam Smith
  • Volume I: PDF at ETANA
  • Volume II: PDF at ETANA

• The Hammer: A Story of the Maccabean Times (London: Seeley and Co., 1890), by Alfred John Church and Richmond Seeley, illust. by John Jellicoe (Gutenberg multiple formats)
• The Hammer: A Story of the Maccabean Times (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1893), by Alfred John Church and Richmond Seeley, illust. by John Jellicoe (page images at HathiTrust)

• Pseudo Hecataeus, "On the Jews": Legitimizing the Jewish Diaspora (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1996), by Bezalel Bar-Kochva (HTML at UC Press)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.