The True Herod
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2014
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780567186577
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Herod i, king of judea, 73 b.c-4 b.c.; Jews, history, 168 b.c-135 a.d.
Description: The lives of the major Roman, Jewish and Egyptian players from the time of Jesus had intertwined relationships, and their respective cultures rubbed against each other. But in tying this period together, Geza saw Herod as one of the pivotal axes around which his contemporaries revolved. Despite being mostly negatively portrayed, and seldom debated, he does not make for a poor hero; for beyond the treachery and violence, his power and passion brought peace and prosperity. It was these misconceptions that Geza loved to challenge, and thus the book was born, or at least the main part of it.
Table of contents: title: Foreword; title: Preface; title: Acknowledgements; title: Abbreviations; title: List of illustrations; title: The main events of Roman history during Herod’s age; title: Frontispiece; title: Prologue; title: Part One A bird’s eye view of biblical history; title: 1 From King David to the start of the Hellenistic period; title: 2 From the arrival of Hellenization in Judaea to the outbreak of the; title: Maccabaean uprising; title: 3 The Maccabee Trio: Judas – Jonathan – Simon; title: 4 The Hasmonaeans from John Hyrcanus to Mattathias Antigonus; title: Part Two Herod the Great; title: Introduction; title: 5 Herod prior to his appointment as king (73/2–40 BCE); title: 6 Herod, king of the Jews (40–4 BCE); title: Herod consolidates his rule (37–25 BCE); title: Herod, the builder (25–13 BCE); title: Herod’s decline (13–4 BCE); title: 7 Herod the Villain or Herod the Great?; title: The portrait of Herod; title: Herod’s character; title: Evaluation of Herod’s positive and negative achievements; title: Herod in literature and cinema; title: Part Three The descendants of Herod in the New Testament; title: and Josephus; title: Introduction; title: 8 Herod Archelaus (4 BCE–6 CE); title: 9 Herod Antipas (4 BCE–39 CE); title: 10 Herod Philip (4 BCE–33/4 CE); title: 11 Herod Agrippa I (41–44 CE); title: 12 Herod of Chalcis (41–48 CE); title: 13 Herod Agrippa II (50–92/3 or 100 CE); title: Conclusion; title: Chronology of Herod’s life and his successors; title: Notes; title: Bibliography; title: Image credits and copyrights; title: Index