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Reference Entries

Rhoads, David. "Zealots." Encyclopedia of Religion 14 (2005): 9939-940.

Stern, Menahem, and Jonathan Price. "Zealots and Sicarii." Encyclopaedia Judaica 21

Print Books

Farmer, William R. Maccabees, Zealots, and Josephus: An Inquiry into Jewish Nationalism in the Greco-Roman Period. New York: Columbia UP, 1956.

Yadin, Yigael. Masada: Herod's Fortress and the Zealot's Last Stand. New York: Random House, 1966.

Pearlman, Moshe. The Zealots of Masada: Story of a Dig. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1967.

Simon, Marcel. Jewish Sects at the Time of Jesus. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1967.

Hengel, Martin. The Zealots: Investigations into the Jewish Freedom Movement in the Period from Herod I until 70 A.D. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1989.

Brighton, Mark Andrew. The Sicarii in Josephus's Judean War: Rhetorical Analysis and Historical Observations. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2009. Early Judaism and Its Literature; No. 27.

Seward, Desmond. Jerusalem's Traitor: Josephus, Masada, and the Fall of Judea. Cambridge, Mass.: Da Capo, 2009.
Magness, Jodi. Masada: From Jewish Revolt to Modern Myth. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 2019.

E-Books

Fern, Susan. The Jews against Rome. London, [England]; New York, New York: Continuum, 2008.


Brighton, Mark Andrew. The Sicarii in Josephus's Judean War Rhetorical Analysis and Historical Observations. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2009. Early Judaism and Its Literature; No. 27.