From Ezra to the last of the Maccabees - Bickerman, Elias Joseph (Schocken Books, 1962)
"Combines ... [the author's] 'the historical foundations of postbiblical Judaism,' originally published in 1949 in The Jews: their history, culture, and religion, edited by Louis Finkelstein ... and The Maccabees: an account of their history from the beginnings to the fall of the House of the Hasmoneans, originally published [in English translation] in 1947."