 Finkelstein authored a number of books, including "Tradition in the Making, Beliefs and Practices of Judaism", "Pre-Maccabean Documents in the Passover Haggadah", "Introduction to the Treatises Abot and Abot of Rabbi Nathan" (1950, in Hebrew with English summary), "Abot of Rabbi Nathan", (a three volume series on The Pharisees), and "Akiba