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| Title: The Jewish People in Classical Antiquity: from Alexander to Bar Kochba Type: Book Year: 1998 Abstract: Feldman Louis Harry in: OTA 22.1 (1999), 151: "This work is a companion volume to J. M. Miller and J. H. Hayes's A History of Ancient Israel and Judah (Philadelphia: Westminster, 1986), picking up where that volume terminated. Focusing on the Judean-Jerusalem community, it does not discuss Jewish life in the Diaspora. After an introduction mainly concerned with the primary sources for the period and the difficulties involved in their study, topics discussed include Alexander the Great, Hellenization, and Rome; the periods of Ptolemaic and Seleucid dominance; the Hasmonean struggles against the Seleucids; parties and groups in Hasmonean times; the Hasmonean dynasty; Pompey's conquest of Judea and early Roman rule in Palestine; Herod's reign; the rule of the Herodians; Judea as a Roman province; the reign of Agrippa I; the road to the rebellion of 66; the major phases of the war; the postwar years; and the Bar Kochba rebellion. Included are nine primary texts, these averaging a page each: the Ptolemaic ordinance on slave and livestock registration, letters of Tobias, Antiochus the Great's so-called "Edict of Privileges", Polybius' description of Antiochus IV, the origins of the Qumran community, the solar calendar, the Canopus decree, Josephus' description of Herod, and the accounts of Dio Cassius and Eusebius of the Bar Kochba rebellion". |