Bibliography


Title: The Great Jewish Revolt. Factors and Circumstances Leading to Its Outbreak
Author: Kasher, Aryeh
Type: Edited Book
Year: 1983
Abstract: "After Kasher's 84-page introduction to the Jewish revolt against the Romans in A.D. 66-70, this volume presents (in Modern Hebrew) eighteen previously published essays on various aspects of the outbreak of the conflict: M. Stern on the situation of the Judean province and its governors in the days of the Julio-Claudian empire, P. Brunt on charges of provincial maladministration, S. Z. Zeitlin on the decree about the eighteen matters (see m. Sabb. 1:4), S. Applebaum on the farmer's struggle in the countryside and the great revolt, U. Rappaport on relations between Jews and non-Jews in the land of Israel and the great revolt against the Romans, L. I. Levine on the Jewish-Greek conflict in 1st-century Caesarea Maritima (see § 20-317), Kasher on the isopoliteia question in Caesarea Maritima (see § 22-630), G. Alon on the term pryrtyn and the history of the high priesthood in the late Second Temple period. E. M. Smallwood on high priests and politics in Roman Palestine (see § 7-333), Stern on Herod's politics and the Jewish community at the end of the Second Temple period, Alon on the attitude of the Pharisees toward Roman rule and the Herodian dynasty, Stern on the leaders in the groups of freedom-fighters at the end of the Second Temple period, H.P. Kingdom on the origins of the Zealots (see § 17-1172), M. Smith on the origins of and relations between the Zealots and the Sicarii (see § 15-1037), M. Hengel on Zealots and Sicarii, Levine on the Zealots at the end of the Second Temple period as a historiographic problem, J. Klausner on the great revolt and the second destruction, and Rappaport on the causes of the great revolt against Rome".
Keywords: History of the Judean War (66-73)