A History of the Jewish People during the Maccabean and Roman Periods (1900 Riggs), book

A History of the Jewish People during the Maccabean and Roman Periods (1900) is a book by James Stevenson Riggs.

Editions and translations

Published in London: Smith Edder and Co., 1900 and in New York, NY: C. Scribner's Sons, 1900. Reprinted several times in New York, NY: C. Scribner's Sons, 1903-1922; London: Smith Edder and Co., 1907; London: Kegan Paul 2006.

Table of contents

• Part I: The Maccabean Period of Jewish History
  • 1. The Historical Sources and Literature of the Period
  • 2. The Causes and Occasion of the Maccabean Uprising
  • 3. The Successful Struggle for Religious Freedom
  • 4. The Long Contest for Political Freedom
  • 5. The Attainment of Independence
  • 6. Judaism in Syria and Egypt
  • 7. The Happy Days of Simon's Reign
  • 8. Territorial Expansion under John Hurcanus
  • 9. Internal Divisions and the Growth of Parties
  • 10. The Revival of Hellenism and the Struggle of Parties
  • 11. Fatal Dissensions and the Coming of the Romans
• Part II: The Roman Period of Jewish History
  • 1. The Historical Sources and the Literature of the Period
  • 2. The Troublous Times of Hyrcanus II
  • 3. The Last of the Hasmoneans
  • 4. Herod, the King of the Jews
  • 5. Herod Under Augustus
  • 6. In the Days of Herod the King
  • 7. The Inner Life of the Nation
  • 8. Herod's Sons and King Agrippa
  • 9. In the Hands of Rome
  • 10. The Final Catastrophe
  • 11. Glimpses of Judaism in Palestine After the War and of Judaism in the Dispersion
• Appendix I: The Seleucidae
• Appendix II: The Genealogy of the Hasmoneans
• Appendix III: The House of the Herods
• Appendix IV: Outline of the Walls About Jerusalem in 70 A.D.
• Appendix V: Are There Maccabean Psalms?
• Appendix VI: Books of Reference upon Jewish History

External links

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