Early Jewish Literature: Links
to Primary Sources
The Dead Sea Scrolls Bible
translated and edited by Martin Abegg,
Jr., Peter Flint and Eugene Ulrich
The Dead Sea Scrolls: A New
Translation,
by Michael O. Wise, Martin Abegg, Jr., and Edward
Cook (Scripture
Index)
The Dead Sea
Scrolls Translated: The Qumran Texts in English by Florentino Garcia
The Dead Sea
Scrolls Uncovered: The First Complete Translation and Interpretation of 50 Key
Documents Withheld for over 35 Years by Robert H. Eisenman
and Michael Wise
The New
Oxford Annotated Apocrypha: NRSV by Michael D. Coogan
The Old Testament
Apocrypha in the Revised Standard Version
The New American
Bible with the Apocrypha
The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha
edited by James Charlesworth: Volume 1 | Volume 2
The Critical [Old Testament] Pseudepigrapha
Philo’s Works (English translation)
Josephus’ Works (Greek texts from Perseus) Jewish Antiquities | The
Jewish War | Life
of Josephus | Against
Apion
Josephus’ Works (English translation. Note “PowerSearch”
feature at bottom of the page). Also: Josephus’
Works
An Outline of Contents for the Talmuds/Mishnah/Tosephta (all of which follow the same basic
structure)
The Mishnah in Hebrew Another site with the Mishnah in Hebrew The
Mishnah, translated by Herbert Danby
(Scripture
Index)
The Tosefta
in Hebrew Another site with the Tosefta
in Hebrew
The Babylonian Talmud in Hebrew Images of each page of the Babylonian Talmud
The Soncino
translation of the
Babylonian Talmud (partial -16 tractates)
Another site with the Babylonian Talumd in Hebrew
Rodkinson’s
translation of the Babylonian Talmud (partial - 22 tractates)
The Jerusalem Talmud in Hebrew Another site with the Jerusalem Talumd in Hebrew
Partial translation of the
Jerusalem Talmud
Marcus Jastrow’s Dictionary
of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli
and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic
Literature
(the standard English lexicon for rabbinic literature)
Steinsaltz’s List of Jewish Rabbis (Tannaim & Amoraim) Search inside the book for “Abaye Oshaya” (without the quotation marks) and click on the first link to find the list of Rabbis. The categories are T1-6, (first-sixth generation of Tannaim) AI, 1-5 (first-fifth generation of Amoraim in the Land of Israel) and AB, 1-8 (first-eighth generation Amoraim in the Babylonia).
Danby’s List of
Rabbis Quoted or Referred to in the Mishnah Search inside the book for
“Appendix III Abtalion Tarfon” (without the quotation marks) and click on the
link to Danby’s list of Rabbis.
On Dating
Rabbinic Traditions (see the last link in the introduction David
Instone-Brewer’s book)
English Translations of
Targums
Midrashim (Various collections
in Hebrew) Access to this site is now
password protected. Contact the
webmaster (webmaster@chassidus.ru)
for further information.
Scripture Indices to the
Literature of Second Temple Judaism
Database of Scripture in
the Mishnah by Dr Alexander Samely
The
Jewish Encyclopaedia (Look up rabbis, customs,
etc.)
Background information regarding Early Jewish Writings (with some
links to some other translations of the same)
Tips on Doing a
Jewish Background Search with BibleWorks, Logos/Libronix and Amazon