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The Jewish revolt against Rome : interdisciplinary perspectives

Mladen Popović (Editor)
The Jewish revolt against Rome: history, sources and perspectives/Mladen Popovic--Provincial revolts in the early Roman Empire/Greg Woolf--Die romischen Reprasentanten in Judaea/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 narratives 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 Rappart--A reconsideration of Josephus' testimony about Masada/Jodi Magness--Coinage of the First Jewish Revolt against Rome/Robert Deutsch--identifying the mint, minters and meanings of the First Jewish Revolt coins/Donald T. Arel--The Jewish population of Jerusalem from the first century B. C. E//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

Print Book, English, 2011
Brill, Leiden, 2011