Early Judaism- A Comprehensive Overview

security for Lower Egypt, as well as supplying manpower for the Ptolemaic army when called upon. Although Jewish inhabitants of ...

their prime objective. Ongoing dynastic quarrels were complicated by an increasingly belligerent Parthian menace. The Parthian a ...

ouster failed. But the brutality of Jannaeus’s repressive regime thwarted any possibility of peace between himself and his alien ...

From Pompey to Hadrian The period from the conquest of Jerusalem by Pompey the Great in 63 b.c.e.to the violent repression of th ...

during the reign of Alexander Jannaeus when he appointed an Idumean noble named Antipas asstrat 3 gosof Idumea. It is likely tha ...

too, changed from a crowded and dilapidated provincial city into a major pilgrimage site and tourist attraction of the Greco-Rom ...

Herod’s Sons and Successors After Herod’s death, there was a struggle among his sons over who was go- ing to succeed him, and th ...

Herodias, who had also been married to two of Antipas’s half-brothers, Herod Philip and Herod son of Mariamne, the daughter of S ...

Outside of literary sources such as Philo, Josephus, and the Gospels, the name Pontius Pilate appears in only one inscription, w ...

Agrippa arrived in Italy in the midst of the statue crisis. Through ei- theraletter(Legat.261–334) or a banquet (Ant.18.289-301) ...

age and inexperience of the younger Agrippa, Claudius returned Judea to the rule of a Roman procurator (J.W.2.220;Ant.18.362-63) ...

peal for calm. Nonetheless, their efforts ultimately failed, and they were ex- pelled from the city (J.W.2.309-14, 334-35, 343-4 ...

tecting little more than small hilltop fortresses and was finally captured at the siege of Jotapata. He managed to ingratiate hi ...

been sidelined by Ananus’s government. With Ananus now dead, Simon entered the fray, again capturing Hebron in the spring of 69 ...

were some Jews living in the countryside, in general during the Roman pe- riod, the Diaspora was an urban phenomenon. In cities ...

situation. When Marcus Agrippa heard about the offenses against the rights of the Jews of Ionia, he immediately ruled in their f ...

of Alexandrian advisors, especially a certain Helicon. Ultimately, neither embassy achieved its goal of receiving an official an ...

the assumption that the Temple would be rebuilt and the priesthood re- stored. In practice, however, Judaism became localized an ...

before the outbreak of another uprising. Although the account has been heavily fictionalized, it speaks to the tensions between ...

were prohibited from setting foot on it on pain of death. After the revolt, there is no more evidence for Jewish settlement in t ...