"Petsonk does more than tell stories -- she shows readers how to create their own..." Ari L. Goldman, author, The Search for God at Harvard
Recommended Readings
Ancient Voices:
Josephus, The Complete Works, Translated by William Whiston, Thomas Nelson Publishers, Nashville, 1998.
Maccabees, Books I and II, The Apocrypha
On the Hellenistic world:
Peter Green, Alexander to Actium: The Historical Evolution of the Hellenistic Age (University of California Press, 1990.
Grace Macurdy, Hellenistic Queens: A Study of Woman-Power in Macedonia, Seleucid Syria, and Ptolemaic Egypt, Ares Publishers, Chicago, 1932.
On Judea:
Lee I. Levine, Jerusalem: Portrait of the City in the Second Temple Period, The Jewish Publication Society, Philadelphia, 2002.
On the Maccabees:
Maccabees, Books I and II, The Apocrypha
Elias Bickerman, From Ezra to the Last of the Maccabees: Foundations of Post-Biblical Judaism, Schocken, NY, 1962.