Imperialism and Jewish Society, 200 B.C.E. to 640 C.E. - Seth Schwartz

26 CHAPTER ONE the reduction of the Palestinian interior to a subordinate.^17 The following de- cades, down to 301, were chaotic ...

POLITICS AN DSOCIETY 27 territory assigned to them. These territories were farmed not like those of the cities of Old Greece, by ...

28 CHAPTER ONE ceeded in wresting the tax-farming contract for Judaea from his ineffectual uncle. (The Ptolemies collected taxes ...

POLITICS AN DSOCIETY 29 needed to be literate in Greek, but acquisition of this skill can have posed little challenge to a class ...

30 CHAPTER ONE character of nature, and the futility of all human endeavor, including righ- teous behavior and the seeking of wi ...

POLITICS AN DSOCIETY 31 written after the biblical books of the Prophets in that the author reveals his identity and tells somet ...

32 CHAPTER ONE The Maccabean Revolt (175–134B.C.E.) If Judaean society in the Second Temple period was characterized by a con- s ...

POLITICS AN DSOCIETY 33 The debate about the character of the revolt, which gradually coalesced under the leadership of the Hasm ...

34 CHAPTER ONE Herodian family later.^39 This observation may help explain the Hasmoneans’ risestructurally, but we must still w ...

POLITICS AN DSOCIETY 35 without surrendering that which made it distinctively Judaean. Embracing elements of Gree kculture facil ...

36 CHAPTER ONE he minted coins—another practice derived from the cities of Old Greece.^44 Like the much earlier coins of Persian ...

POLITICS AN DSOCIETY 37 cording to Josephus, when John was freed of Seleucid domination by the death of Antiochus VII in Parthia ...

38 CHAPTER ONE conversion. Nevertheless, some Idumaeans fled to Egypt, and some of those who stayed behind remained secretly dev ...

POLITICS AN DSOCIETY 39 Judaism, probably more gradually and incompletely than Josephus implies, the Idumaeans and the rest rece ...

40 CHAPTER ONE Causes It is unclear why the Hasmoneans undertoo ktheir expansion. An obvious answer should not be overlooked—the ...

POLITICS AN DSOCIETY 41 of so much new wealth into the district.^58 It is therefore especially frustrating that our main ancient ...

42 CHAPTER ONE native governors.^61 The expansion strengthened the representatives of the Ju- daean institutions—the priests and ...

POLITICS AN DSOCIETY 43 now Lebanon, and also a group of otherwise unidentified generals. One would have expected Hyrcanus to ha ...

44 CHAPTER ONE districts of Galilee, Samaria, Judaea, and his native Idumaea—with the help of a detachment of Roman troops and J ...

POLITICS AN DSOCIETY 45 simultaneously as king and high priest. He was furthermore not a Judaean but a judaized Idumaean, and ma ...