The Jewish revolt against Rome : interdisciplinary perspectives /

The Jewish revolt against Rome in the first century C.E. provides ancient historians the opportunity to study one of the best-documented provincial revolts in the early Roman Empire. This volume brings together different disciplines, some for the first time. The contributors draw from a wide range o...

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Other Authors: Popovic, Mladen.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.

Series: Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 154.
Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2012, ISBN: 9789004223226.

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Call Number: DS122.8 .J49 2011

Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • The Jewish Revolt against Rome: History, Sources and Perspectives /
  • Mladen Popović
  • Provincial Revolts in the Early Roman Empire /
  • Greg Woolf
  • Die römischen Repräsentanten in Judaea: Provokateure oder Vertreter der römischen Macht? /
  • Werner Eck
  • Identity Politics in Early Roman Galilee /
  • Andrea M. Berlin
  • Not Greeks but Romans: Changing Expectations for the Eschatological War in the War Texts from Qumran /
  • Brian Schultz
  • Going to War against Rome: The Motivation of the Jewish Rebels /
  • James S. McLaren
  • What is History? Using Josephus for the Judaean-Roman War /
  • Steve Mason
  • Rebellion under Herod the Great and Archelaus: Prominent Motifs and Narrative Function /
  • Jan Willem van Henten
  • Josephus, the Herodians, and the Jewish War /
  • Julia Wilker
  • Josephus on Albinus: The Eve of Catastrophe in Changing Retrospect /
  • Daniel R. Schwartz
  • Philosophia epeisaktos: Some Notes on Josephus, A.J. 18.9 /
  • Pieter W. van der Horst
  • Who Were the Sicarii? /
  • Uriel Rappaport
  • A Reconsideration of Josephus' Testimony about Masada /
  • Jodi Magness
  • Coinage of the First Jewish Revolt against Rome: Iconography, Minting Authority, Metallurgy /
  • Robert Deutsch
  • Identifying the Mints, Minters and Meanings of the First Jewish Revolt Coins /
  • Donald T. Ariel
  • The Jewish Population of Jerusalem from the First Century bornc.e. to the Early Second Century c.e.: The Epigraphic Record /
  • Jonathan J. Price
  • The Jewish War and the Roman Civil War of 68-69 c.e.: Jewish, Pagan, and Christian Perspectives /
  • George H. van Kooten
  • Index of Modern Authors
  • Index of Ancient Sources.