Jewish War Under Trajan and Hadrian

Informationen zum Autor William Horbury is a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge and a Fellow of the British Academy. His recent publications include Jewish Messianism and the Cult of Christ (1998), Herodian Judaism and New Testament Study (2006), and, with David Noy, Jewish Inscriptions of Graeco-Roman Egypt (1992). He is also the co-editor, with W. D. Davies and J. V. M. Sturdy, of The Cambridge History of Judaism, Volume 3 (1999). Klappentext A new history of the two major Jewish risings against Rome in the years following the destruction of Jerusalem. Zusammenfassung This book presents a new history of the two major Jewish risings against Rome in the early second century following the destruction of Jerusalem. It draws together recent historical and archaeological work! and will be valuable to all those interested in Judaism and Christianity in the Roman Empire. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. Sources and historians; 3. Antecedents; 4. Trajan and Hadrian; 5. Hadrian and Pius.

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• Authors: William Horbury, William (University of Cambridge) Horbury, Horbury William
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.09.2014
• EAN: 9780521622967
• ISBN: 978-0-521-62296-7
• No. of pages: 512
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism; RELIGION / Judaism / General, Judaism