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

==Abstract==

==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==
*[http://www.archive.org/details/historyofjewishp00rigg Internet Archive (full text)]
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=Oi8sAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=James+Stevenson+Riggs&source=bl&ots=68Bd7YPUJV&sig=22n_mH0KK4bAoLI8Yakq5TUTU80&hl=en&ei=_xRdS4OVNJHUNYfYqIwP&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CAsQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=&f=false Google Books (full text)]
	

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