The Ruling Class of Judaea by Martin Goodman

The Ruling Class of Judaea by Martin Goodman

This book examines why in AD 66 a revolt against Rome broke out in Judaea. It attempts to explain both the rebellion itself and its temporary success by discussing the role of the Jewish ruling class in the sixty years preceding the war and within the independent state which lasted until the destruction of the Temple in AD 70. The author seeks to show that the ultimate cause of the Revolt was a misunderstanding by Rome of the status criteria of Jewish society. The importance of the subject lies both in the significance of the history of Judaea in this period for the development of Judaism and early Christianity and in the light shed on Roman methods of provincial administration in general by an understanding of why Rome was unable to control a society with cultural values so different from its own.

'… a major contribution to the history of Roman Judaea' Society for Old Testament Study

Martin Goodman has edited both The Journal of Roman Studies and TheJournal of Jewish Studies, has taught Roman history at Birmingham and Oxford universities, and is currently professor of Jewish Studies at Oxford. A Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, and of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1996. He is the editor of The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies, which won a National Jewish Book Award for Scholarship in 2002. He lives with his family in Birmingham, England.

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Titel	The Ruling Class of Judaea
Autor	Martin Goodman
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Cambridge University Press
Erscheinungsjahr	1993-06-03
Seitenanzahl	280
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