Raphall, Morris J. Post-Biblical History of the Jews.

Morris Jacob Raphall (1798-1868) a native of Sweden, was educated in Denmark, Germany and England. In 1849 he was appointed Rabbi of the B'nei Jeshurun Congregation of New York, in which capacity he served almost until his death. This well-researched text quotes from an array of sources including Josephus and Azariah di Rossi, as well as the contemporary scholarship of historians Peter Beer and Zechariah Frankel. See EJ, Vol. XIII cols. 1551-2.