Authors: Andrea M Berlin, J. Andrew Overman (Editor), Andrea Berlin
ISBN-13: 9780415257060, ISBN-10: 0415257069
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: June 2002
Edition: New Edition
The First Jewish Revolt against Rome is arguably the most decisive event in the history of Judaism and Christianity. The destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem in 70 CE by the Roman General Titus forced a transformation in structure and form for both of these fraternal religions. Yet despite its importance, little has been written on the First Revolt, its causes, implications and the facts surrounding it.
In this volume, Andrea M. Berlin and J. Andrew Overman have gathered the foremost scholars on the period to discuss and debate this pivotal historical event. The contributions explore both Roman and Jewish perspectives on the Revolt, looking at its history and archaeology, and finally examining the ideology and interpretation of the revolt in subsequent history and myth.
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Introduction | 1 | |
1 | Current scholarship on the First Revolt | 15 |
Pt. I | Historical and archaeological background | 25 |
2 | Roman perspectives on the Jews in the age of the Great Revolt | 27 |
3 | The Revolt from a regional perspective | 43 |
4 | Romanization and anti-Romanization in pre-Revolt Galilee | 57 |
5 | Phoenicians and Jews: a ceramic case-study | 74 |
Pt. II | The first year in Galilee | 85 |
6 | Power vacuum and power struggle in 66-7 C.E. | 87 |
7 | Sepphoris: city of peace | 110 |
8 | Yodefat/Jotapata: the archaeology of the first battle | 121 |
9 | Gamla: city of refuge | 134 |
Pt. III | From archaeology and history to ideology | 155 |
10 | Documents of the First Jewish Revolt from the Judean desert | 157 |
11 | Jewish millenarian expectations | 164 |
12 | In the footsteps of the Tenth Roman Legion in Judea | 189 |
13 | The First Revolt and Flavian politics | 213 |
14 | Good from evil: the rabbinic response | 221 |
15 | The First Revolt and its afterlife | 237 |
Index | 253 |