Journal for the Study of Judaism In the Persian, Hellenistic and Roman PeriodFounded in 1970, the Journal for the Study of Judaism is a leading international journal for scholarly discussions on Jewish history, culture, and literature in the Persian, Hellenistic, and Roman periods. It provides biblical scholars, classicists, historians, and scholars of Second Temple and early rabbinic literature, with a forum for new scholarship in these fields. The Journal for the Study of Judaism features articles adopting a range of methods, theories, and empirical approaches, as well as an extensive book review section; it occasionally publishes special thematic issues.