The Jews in the Roman World (1973 Grant), book

The Jews in the Roman World (1973) is a book by Michael Grant.

Editions

Published in London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1973, and New York, Scribner, 1973. Reprinted in 1984, 1995, and 1999.

Contents

• pt. 1. The Jews before the Romans. Prologue : the traditions of Israel -- Liberation from the Greeks : the Maccabees -- The divisions within Judaism in Maccabaean times
• pt. 2. Herod and his successors. The Jews under Pompey, Caesar and the Parthians -- The kingship of Herod the Great -- Principalities and province
• pt. 3. Threats from Romans, Greeks and Christians. The problems of Pontius Pilate -- The peril from Caligula and the Greeks -- The kingship of Agrippa I and after -- Paul's bid to change the Jews
• pt. 4. The wars against the Romans. The prelude to the first revolt -- The first revolt -- Jewish survival : the menace of the gospels -- Rebellions in the East -- The second revolt and after
• pt. 5. The Jews in the later empire. The later Pagan empire
• Epilogue : the Jews in the Christian empire.

External links

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