City in Roman Palestine

Zusatztext The volume is massively researched and full of invaluable information. Highly recommended for basic research collections in ancient history. Klappentext This book is a study of the city and urban life in Roman Palestine during the Talmudic period! 100-400 B.C. Rather than focus on a specific city! Daniel Sperber synthesizes what is known about city life in Talmudic Palestine to create a paradigmatic hypothetical Palestinian city. Drawing on numerous literary records for his information! he describes the structure and use of many physical aspects of the city! such as its markets! pubs! streets! bathhouses! roads! walls! toilets! and water supply. Rounding out the study is a chapter describing the archeological evidence! written by Sperber's colleague! Professor Joshua Schwartz. With the recent upsurge of interest in urbanization in the Greco-Roman world! The City in Roman Palestine will attract not only scholars of Judaic literature and history! but also classicists and ancient historians. Zusammenfassung Sperber uses rabbinic texts, classical sources, and archaeological evidence to describe what a typical Palestinian city looked like, and how it operated, during the Roman period 100-400 AD. His portrait provides a background for understanding everyday life in the urban environment of the New Testament.

Product details

• Authors: Dan Sperber, Daniel Sperber, Daniel (Professor of Talmud Sperber, Sperber Daniel
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.02.1999
• EAN: 9780195098822
• ISBN: 978-0-19-509882-2
• No. of pages: 208
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; HISTORY / Ancient / General, HISTORY / World, HISTORY / Middle East / Israel & Palestine, General & world history, Ancient World, Middle Eastern history, Palestine, Ancient History, General and world history, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory