For translations of The Old Order I have drawn in The Four Witnesses on the Revised Standard Version and the Jerusalem Bible.
W.G. Braude, The Midrash on Psalms, 1959;
H.Chadwick, Origen: Contra Celsum, 1953;
A valuable survey of evidence is in E. Schurer, The History of the Jewish People in the Age of Jesus Christ, new edition, 1973-87.
R.H. Charles, Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament, 1913;
J.H. Charlesworth, The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, 1983 and 1985;
B.D. Chilton, The Glory of Israel: The Theology and Provenience of the Isaiah Targum, 1982;
H. Danby, The Mishnah, 1933;
A. Diez Macho, Neophyti I: Targum Palestinense, 1970;
I. Epstein, The Babylonian Talmud, 1935-2;
C.T.R. Hayward, The Jewish Temple (for Sira's-Son), 1996;
E. Levine, Targum to the Five Megillot (Codex Vatican Urbanati I), 1977;
E. Lohse, Die Texte aus Qumran, 1971;
A.D. Nock and A.J. Festugiere, Corpus Hermeticum, 1945;
K. Niederwimmer, Die Didache, 1989;
G. Vermes, The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English, 1997.
Almost all the book's other translations from Greek and Latin are my own. A famous series of texts (in the original language with an English translation) is available as the Loeb Classical Library. The works of Josephus, Lucan, Philo, Philostratus, Pliny, Suetonius, and Tacitus are all published in the series.
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