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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797174903321

Autore

Allegro John M.

Titolo

The chosen people : a study of Jewish history from the time of the Exile until the Revolt of Bar Kocheba / / John M. Allegro ; with a new introduction by James M. Donovan ; cover design by Cleiton Pereira Carvalho

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Piketon, Ohio : , : Rousseau, etc., , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-9893280-4-X

Edizione

[Second edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (304 p.)

Disciplina

930.04924

Soggetti

Jews - History - 586 B.C.-70 A.D

Jews - History - 168 B.C.-135 A.D

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Front Matter; Title Page; Publisher Information; Introduction to the Second Edition; Preface; The Chosen People; Author's Introduction; 1: Origins and Exile; 2: The Return; 3: Building the Walls; 4: The Greek Enchantment; 5: The Maccabees; 6: The Rise and Fall of "The Hammer"; 7: John Hyrcanus; 8: Alexander Jannaeus and The Pharisees; 9: Enter Rome; 10: Antipater, The Idumaean Fox; 11: The Schooling of Herod; 12: Herod, King of The Jews; 13: Herod's Womenfolk; 14: Plot and Counter-Plot; 15: Rome's Tightening Grip; 16: Zealots and Sicarii; 17: Herod Agrippa

18: Agrippa II and The Procurators19: The Fall of Jerusalem; 20: Son of The Star; Back Matter; Suggested Further Reading

Sommario/riassunto

The Chosen People tells the history of the Jews from the conquest of Jersualem by Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon in 587 B.C.E. to the Second Jewish Revolt of C.E. 132. John Allegro bases his account on traditional texts - books of the Old Testament, Josephus, Philo Judaeus, Dio Cassius, and others - and sets out the complicated parade of plots, counter-plots, betrayals, and insurrections in a brisk and highly readable sequence. His main theme is how the conception of the Jewish nation as a divi...