Imperialism and Jewish Society
Subtitle: 200 B.C.E. to 640 C.E.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: December 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780691088501
Subjects: History of religion; Jewish studies; Judaism; World history: BCE to c 500 CE; Jews; History - General History; Religion; History: World; Ancient Greece; Ancient Rome; Persian Empire; Jewish - Ancient; Judaism - History; Archaeology and Ancient History; History / Jewish; History; 168 B.C.-135 A.D; 70-638; Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D
First sentence: IN THIS CHAPTER I provide some of the political and social background for the discussion in chapter 2 of the functioning of a loosely integrated Palestinian Jewish society in the later first millennium B.C.E. I focus here on some of the crucial episodes in the prehistory of Jews' political and social integration: the activities of Ezra and Nehemiah (about which little can really be known), the Maccabean revolt, the fundamentally important but little studied or understood Hasmonean expansion, and, perhaps rather surprisingly, the activities of Herod.