02763nam 2200517 450 991079717490332120230807215246.00-9893280-4-X(CKB)3710000000401675(EBL)2030536(MiAaPQ)EBC2030536(Au-PeEL)EBL2030536(CaPaEBR)ebr11045324(CaONFJC)MIL926248(OCoLC)909901370(EXLCZ)99371000000040167520150429h20152015 uy 0engur|n|---|||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierThe 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 CarvalhoSecond edition.Piketon, Ohio :Rousseau, etc.,2015.©20151 online resource (304 p.)Description based upon print version of record.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 Agrippa18: Agrippa II and The Procurators19: The Fall of Jerusalem; 20: Son of The Star; Back Matter; Suggested Further ReadingThe 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...JewsHistory586 B.C.-70 A.DJewsHistory168 B.C.-135 A.DJewsHistoryJewsHistory930.04924Allegro John M.168619Donovan James M.Carvalho Cleiton PereiraMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910797174903321The chosen people3692855UNINA