It is unusual to find a monograph that is so carefully argued while also being so enjoyable to read. On top of that, Klawans has managed to gather a large amount of evidence for a very appealing thesis.
Jonathan Klawans is Professor of Religion at Boston University. He is the author of Impurity and Sin in Ancient Judaism (OUP 2000), Purity, Sacrifice, and the Temple (OUP 2005), and Josephus and the Theologies of Ancient Judaism (OUP 2012). He is also co-editor of the forthcoming Jewish Annotated Apocrypha.