Reference to a Set I of Biblio References

I find the work of Elias Bickerman-- evidently a German Jew in Third Reich time who barely escaped the Concentration Camps then-- to have the best overviews, and at the most-digressionless summary of the Maccabean Experience we know from Bibles for Catholics and Anglo-like-Catholics. Bickerman has a student named Jonathan Goldstein who did the Maccabees in two volumes for each for the Doubleday (Catholic publisher) Bible; Goldstein to my taste does not what his teacher Bickerman did-- just give us an equitable, barely Jewish in tendency recap of the Maccabees at ready hand. The biblio for the two Bickerman books I could get in UofLouisville Ekstrom Library (having read these works to point of barf-back with some competence) is in the Maccabees 1, 2, 3, 4 Google Classroom cirriculum at this link... I thin it only "fair play" to those who follow me in this Maccabean pursuit to list ISBN's and Library of Congress call-numbers in references, and NEVER to cite a book unless with honesty I can say/profess that I have digested the book to a sufficent-cover-to-cover reading.

Bickerman gets first biblio report. From times to times appropriate or expansive, I shall cite Bickerman (maybe thence to find some way of code-designation to prevent the dittography of complete citation.

I have only one evident "picture book" of popularization at hand now, and a dearth of really schmalzy pic pic pic heavy goo is fortunately not the "style" of Ekstrom UofLouisville Library nor of mine to hold-- for the U physical book-holding, for me cognitive/noetic "book-holding."

By the way, the Goldstein volumes for I and II will really chew up the reader's time, with much rap about the in's/out's of pure versus corrupt text in ways, and in the problem-- rather like the problem of unravelling the Words of Gentle Jesus from the NT, not just in so-called, unfortunately-so-called Q from Matthew Luke minus Mark, but in "red letters" far along yes into Apocalypse/Revelation said to be dating from about the turn of the 2nd century. I need to read this two volumes with more kindness than my rising tedium would like, for the works are evidenced with close reason, and full of references that "must read" eventually.

More by the way, Bickerman would have us see a chrono source in Daniel 11 maybe 7 too; he wants U to read Josephus Antiquities 12 and 13, and sidelong some sources now a witted near-zero to my knowledge like Polybius and others. Goldstein sees a source, which must be evidenced in later scholarship than Bickerman, in Psalm 79 (here with some intrigue I find a Hebrew word Hasidim which meaning "pious" and translated "saints" in the King James Bible is as well the name of a modern Jewish mysticism praised by Martin Buber; as well, Hasidim seem to be the precursors of the latter Pharisees whose spirit lives today in-mainstream Judaism. Importing finding to me, this genetically distant Jew who follows a stripped naked theologically JESUS! LOL!)

So far, so foul sometimes, I wit that there may me those to gag at the gut fecal lyricism in me that will often wax into ejaculatory prayer as prose-poetic or poetic-attempting-otherwise. I CARE NOT IF YOU, ESPECIALLY THOSE HOLY-ROLLERS WHO PREFER THE BABBLING FORM OF PRAYER-LANGUAGE, I CARE NOT IF YOU DISS THE MANTIC MANIC THAT BITCHES ME: MY BLESSING AND MY CURSE MY ECSTATIC EXPERIENCES ARE, AND B-DAMMIT THESE WILL TIME-TO-TIME ERUPT VOLCANIC OR LAFFY.