"Alexander assembles material from Scripture and tradition, through religious law and ethical literature to a section on Society and the Jews, and prefaces the

"An indispensible companion text, Texts and Traditions includes the essential documents of the various religious trends of the Second Temple and Rabbinic period

Essays analyze the major traditional texts of Judaism from literary, historical, philosophical, and religious points of view.

A sourcebook of post-biblical Jewish literature from the Second Commonwealth to modern times.