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Classical Sources (from Antiquity to the Fall of the Roman Empire in the West):

Bible
     all Bible quotations used in this site are from the New King James Version (NKJV)

Josephus
     http://www.ccel.org/j/josephus/works/JOSEPHUS.htm
     http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=J.+BJ+1.1

Juvenal (Satires)
     http://www.fordham.edu/HALSALL/ancient/juv-sat1eng.html

Suetonius - Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (De Vita Caesarum) (The Twelve Caesars)
     See especially the sections on Gaius (Caligula), Claudius and Nero to understand the depravity of those men.
     http://www.livius.org/su-sz/suetonius/suetonius.html
     http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Suetonius/12Caesars/home.html

Tacitus (Annales)
     http://classics.mit.edu/Tacitus/annals.html

Talmud (Oral Torah)
     http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Talmud/talmudtoc.html
 

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Medieval Sources (from the Fall of the Roman Empire in the West to the invention of the Printing Press):

Maimonides (The Rambam)
     Ma’amar Hayichuel
     Mishneh Torah
     Sefer Ha'Mitzvot

The Midrash
     Genesis Rabba - http://www.sacred-texts.com/jud/mhl/mhl05.htm
     Exodus Rabba - http://www.sacred-texts.com/jud/mhl/mhl06.htm
     Leviticus Rabba - http://www.sacred-texts.com/jud/mhl/mhl07.htm
     Numbers Rabba - http://www.sacred-texts.com/jud/mhl/mhl08.htm
     Deuteronomy Rabba - http://www.sacred-texts.com/jud/mhl/mhl09.htm 

Rashi
 

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Printed Sources (from the invention of the Printing Press to the Present):

Gruen, Erich S., Diaspora - Jews Amidst Greeks and Romans, Harvard University Press, 2002.

Loden, Walker and Wood, editors, The Bible and the Land: An Encounter, Musalaha (Jerusalem), 2000.
     Available through:  Musalaha, P.O. Box 52110, Jerusalem 91521 Israel

Gibbon, Edward (Roman Empire, 6 volumes)
     http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/gibbon/index.htm
 


Rosner, Fred, The Existence and Unity of God, Three Treatises Attributed to Moses Maimonides, Jason Aronson, Inc., 1990. “Treatise on the Unity of God, known in Hebrew as Ma’amar Hayichuel, a paraphrase of the first two volumes of the Rambam’s Mishneh Torah, was written by the Rambam, asserts Rosner.  Its purpose was to provide non-Jews with a synopsis of Jewish theology, philosophy, and ethics.” 

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