Contents
Preface vii
Introduction to Volume , by Hannah M. Cotton xi
Abbreviations xix
Part I.The Hellenistic World and Rome
. The Problem of Hellenistic Syria
. The Phoenician Cities: A Case-Study of Hellenisation
. Hellenistic History in a Near Eastern Perspective:
The Book of Daniel
. The Background to the Maccabean Revolution: Reflections on
Martin Hengel’s ‘‘Judaism and Hellenism’’
. Polybius between Greece and Rome
. The Greek City in the Roman Period
Part II. Rome and the East
. Reflections on the Trials of Jesus