TRANSLATIONS OF ANCIENT TEXTS

Introductory

Amy-Jill Levine, Dale C. Allison, Jr., and John Dominic Crossan (eds), The Historical Jesus in Context. Princeton Readings in Religion. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006; Japanese translation, 2009.

Evans, Craig A. Ancient Texts for New Testament Studies: A Guide to the Background Literature. Peabody, Mass. Hendrickson, 2005.

Early Jewish

General

Bartlett, John R. Jews in the Hellenistic World: Josephus, Aristeas, the Sibylline Oracles, Eupolemus. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1985.

Maccoby, Hyam. Early Rabbinic Writings. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1988.

Dead Sea Scrolls

Abegg, Martin, Jr.; Peter Flint; and Eugene Ulrich, eds. The Dead Sea Scrolls Bible: The Oldest Known Bible. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1999.

García Martínez, Florentino, ed. The Dead Sea Scrolls Study Edition. 2 vols. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2000.

Vermes, Geza. The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English. Rev. ed. New York: Penguin, 2011 (7th edn.).

Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha

Charles, R. H., ed. The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament. 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon, 1913.

Charlesworth, James H., ed. The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha. 2 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1983; 1985.

Feldman, Louis H., James L. Kugel, Lawrence H. Schiffman, eds. Outside the Bible: Ancient Jewish Writings Related to Scripture. 3 vols. Lincoln, Neb.: Jewish Publication Society, 2013.

Josephus

Mason, Steve, ed. Flavius Josephus: Translation and Commentary. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2000–.

Whiston, William, trans. The Works of Josephus Complete and Unabridged. 1736. New updated edition, Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson, 1987.

Williamson, G. A., trans. Josephus: The Jewish War. New York: Penguin, 1984.

Loeb Classical Library

Philo of Alexandria

Williamson, Ronald. Jews in the Hellenistic World: Philo. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1989.

Yonge, C. D., trans. The Works of Philo. 1854. New updated edition, Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson, 1993.

Loeb Classical Library

Mishnah

Danby, Herbert. The Mishnah. Oxford: Clarendon, 1933.

Neusner, Jacob, trans. The Mishnah: A New Translation. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997.

Talmud

Epstein, I. The Babylonian Talmud. 30 vols. London: Soncino, 1935–48.

Neusner, Jacob, trans. The Babylonian Talmud. 22 vols. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2011.

Steinsaltz, Adin. The Talmud. New York: Random House, 1989–99.

Zlotowitz, Gedaliah, Yisroel Simcha Schor, Chaim Malinowitz, Asher Dicker, Nesanel Kasnett, eds. and trans. The Schottenstien Talmud English. 73 vols. Brooklyn, NY: Mesorah, 2005.

Tosefta

Neusner, Jacob, trans. The Tosefta. 2 vols. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2014

Early Christian

General

Barrett, C. K. The New Testament Background: Writings from Ancient Greece and the Roman Empire That Illuminate Christian Origins. Rev. ed. San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1987.

Cartlidge, David R., and David L. Dungan, eds. Documents for the Study of the Gospels. Rev. ed. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1994.

Elliott, J. K. The Apocryphal New Testament: A Collection of Apocryphal Christian Literature in an English Translation. Rev ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Richardson, Cyril D., ed. Early Christian Fathers. New York: Macmillan, 1970.

Staniforth, Maxwell, trans. Early Christian Writings. New York: Penguin, 1987.

Nag Hammadi

Barnstone, Willis, and Marvin Meyer, eds. The Gnostic Bible. Boston: Shambhala, 2003.

Layton, Bentley. The Gnostic Scriptures: A New Translation. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1987.

Robinson, J. M., ed. The Nag Hammadi Library in English. 4th rev. ed. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1996.

Ancient Translations of the Bible

Greek

Pietersma, Albert, and Benjamin G. Wright, eds. A New English Translation of the Septuagint and the Other Greek Translations Traditionally included under That Title. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.

Aramaic

McNamara, Martin, et al. The Aramaic Bible: The Targums. Collegeville, Minn.: Liturgical, 1987–.

Classical Sources

Beard, Mary; John North; and Simon Price. Religions of Rome. Vol. 2: A Sourcebook. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Stern, Menahem. Greek and Latin Authors on Jews and Judaism. 3 vols. Jerusalem: Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, 1974, 1980, 1981.

Translations of the writings of most Greek and Roman authors are available in the Loeb Classical Library.