Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of maps
- List of text-figures
- List of tables
- List of stemmata
- Map
- Preface
- PART I NARRATIVE
- PART II THE GOVERNMENT AND ADMINISTRATION OF THE EMPIRE
- PART III ITALY AND THE PROVINCES
- PART IV ROMAN SOCIETY AND CULTURE UNDER THE JULIO-CLAUDIANS
- Index
- Map 1. The Roman world in the time of Augustus and the Julio-Claudian emperors.
- Map 2. Italy and the eastern Mediterranean.
- Map 9. Germany.
- Map 11. Military bases, cities and settlements in the Danubian provinces.
- Map 12. Geography and native peoples of the Danubian provinces.
- Map 15. Greece and the Aegean.
- Map 16. Asia Minor.
- References
14d - Judaea
from 14 - The East
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 March 2008
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of maps
- List of text-figures
- List of tables
- List of stemmata
- Map
- Preface
- PART I NARRATIVE
- PART II THE GOVERNMENT AND ADMINISTRATION OF THE EMPIRE
- PART III ITALY AND THE PROVINCES
- PART IV ROMAN SOCIETY AND CULTURE UNDER THE JULIO-CLAUDIANS
- Index
- Map 1. The Roman world in the time of Augustus and the Julio-Claudian emperors.
- Map 2. Italy and the eastern Mediterranean.
- Map 9. Germany.
- Map 11. Military bases, cities and settlements in the Danubian provinces.
- Map 12. Geography and native peoples of the Danubian provinces.
- Map 15. Greece and the Aegean.
- Map 16. Asia Minor.
- References
Summary
THE HERODS
The political history of Judaea in the period covered by this volume is particularly well attested through the preservation of the work of the Jewish historian Josephus, who wrote after A.D. 70 first a detailed account of the Judaean revolt against Rome from A.D. 66 to A.D. 73 or 74 and then an apologetic version for non-Jewish readers of Jewish history to the outbreak of that war.
A priest from Jerusalem and a commander of the Jewish forces in Galilee during the war, Josephus was steeped in the traditions of his nation. He was an acute observer, but his evidence is tainted by the traumas of his own career. Captured by Roman forces in A.D. 67, he espoused the enemy cause with a wholeheartedness that won him the favour of the future emperor Vespasian and enabled him to spend the last part of his life, including his active years as a writer, in comfort, probably in Rome.
The bias in Josephus' narratives, particularly of the first century A.D., when Judaea fell under direct Roman rule, can be partly checked from other sources. Inscriptions provide less useful evidence than elsewhere in the Roman East, for the Judaean ruling class never picked up the epigraphic habit except in the medium of coinage, but the contribution of archaeology is large and growing. The Gospels and Acts of the Apostles add further evidence although, since they are theological documents, their accuracy cannot be taken for granted.
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