The Legends of the Rabbis: Jewish Legends of the Second Commonwealth, Vol. 1 Book

	Introduction
Pt. I	The Persian Period
1	Returning from the Babylonian Exile	3
2	Cyrus	3
3	Persia	7
4	The Four Empires	9
5	Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi	16
6	Ezra	18
7	Zerubbabel and Nehemiah	24
Pt. II	The Greek Period
1	Alexander the Great	37
2	Greece	44
3	The Greek Language and the Septuagint	45
Pt. III	The Hasmonean Period
1	The Greek Persecution and the Maccabean Revolt	61
2	The Hasmonean Rulers	72
Pt. IV	The Apocrypha
1	The Story of Tobit	87
2	The Story of Judith	90
3	The Story of Susanna	93
Pt. V	The Second Temple
1	The Building of the Second Temple	103
2	Differences between the First and Second Temples	107
3	Priests and Levites	109
4	In and about the Temple	119
5	Services and Practices in the Temple	122
6	Extraordinary Events in the Temple	142
Pt. VI	The Great Assembly and the Sanhedrin
1	The Men of the Great Assembly	161
2	The Sanhedrin	165
Pt. VII	The Early Sages
1	Simon the Just	185
2	Antigonus of Sokho	187
3	Jose ben Joezer and Jose ben Johanan	187
4	Joshua ben Perahyah and Nittai the Arbelite	189
5	Judah ben Tabbai and Simon ben Shetah	190
6	Shemaiah and Avtalyon	193
7	Honi the Circle Drawer	194
8	Abba Hilkiah	198
9	Hanin the Hidden	200
10	Hillel and Shammai	200
11	Jonathan ben Uzziel	211
Pt. VIII	The First Generation of Tannaim
1	The School of Shammai and the School of Hillel	233
2	Ben Bag Bag and Ben He He	236
3	Akavyah ben Mahalalel	236
4	Gamaliel I the Elder	238
5	Eleazar ben Harsom	243
6	Abba Saul ben Batnit	244
7	Baba ben Buta	245
8	Hanina the Deputy High Priest	246
9	Simon ben Gamaliel I	248
10	Nahum of Gimzo	252
11	Eliezer ben Jacob	254
12	Hanina ben Dosa	255
13	Hananiah ben Hezekiah	260
14	Nehunia ben Ha-kanah	260
15	Johanan ben Zakkai	261
Pt. IX	The Last Years of the Second Commonwealth
1	Rome	309
2	Sects	324
3	Jerusalem and Its Inhabitants	326
4	The Destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple	339
5	After the Destruction	356
	Bibliography	407
	Name and Place Index	417
	Subject Index	431
	Passages Cited	442