Title: The city in Roman Palestine
First published: 1996
Description: This book is a study of the city and urban life in Roman Palestine during the Talmudic period, 100-400 C.E. Rather than focus on a specific city, Daniel Sperber synthesizes what is known about city life in Talmudic Palestine to create a paradigmatic hypothetical Palestinian city. Drawing on numerous literary records for his information, he describes the structure and use of many physical aspects of the city, such as its markets, pubs, streets, bathhouses, roads, walls, toilets, and water supply.

Rounding out the study is a chapter describing the archeological evidence, written by Sperber's colleague, Professor Joshua Schwartz. With the recent upsurge of interest in urbanization in the Greco-Roman world, The City in Roman Palestine will attract not only scholars of Judaic literature and history, but also classicists and ancient historians.
Subjects: Ancient Cities and towns, Antiquities, Cities and towns, Ancient, Civilization, History, History and criticism, Jews, Rabbinical literature, Villes antiques, Steden, Juifs, Histoire et critique, Littérature rabbinique, 15.75 history of Asia, Antiquités, Civilisation, Palestine, history, Jews, history, Rabbinical literature, history and criticism, Palestine, antiquities, Palestine, history, to 1948, Jews, history, 70-1789
Places: Palestine
Time periods: 70-638, To 1500
LC classification: DS111.1 .S74 1998