The Ruling Class of Judea: The Origins of the Jewish Revolt against Rome (1987 Goodman), book

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The Ruling Class of Judaea: The Origins of the Jewish Revolt against Rome (1987) is a book by Martin Goodman.

Abstract

"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."--Publisher description.

Editions

Published in Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.

Translations

Table of contents

  • Introduction
    • 1. The problem
    • 2. The conventional explanations
    • 3. Civil war, the ruling class, and revolt
  • Part I: The Ruling Class A.D. 6-66
    • 1. The new ruling class A.D. 6
    • 2. Problems facing the ruling class: economic and social
    • 3. Problems facing the ruling class: religious ideology
    • 4. Why the ruling class failed
  • Part II: Faction Struggle Within the Ruling Class
    • 1. Reactions to failure: the ruling class A.D. 6-66
    • 2. The outbreak of revolt
    • 3. The independent Jewish state A.D. 67-70
    • 4. Trends in faction policies A.D. 50-70
  • Part III: The Aftermath of the Revolt
    • 1. The Roman reaction

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