The publication of this new edition of Elias Bickerman's acclaimed Studies in Jewish and Christian History along with his famous book, The God of the Maccabees, brings Bickerman's central studies on ancient Judaism and early Christianity to a new generation of students and scholars.

Amram D. Tropper, DPhil (2001) in Jewish History, Oxford University, is Lecturer of Jewish History at Ben-Gurion University. He is author of Wisdom, Politics and Historiography: Tractate Avot in the Context of the Graeco-Roman Near East (Oxford, 2004).