Rome and Jerusalem: The Clash of Ancient Civilizations - Couverture rigide

Goodman, Martin

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0713994479 ISBN 13 : 9780713994476

Editeur : Allen Lane, 2007

Synopsis

In AD 70, after a war that had flared sporadically for four years, three Roman legions under the future Emperors Vespasian and his son Titus surrounded, laid siege to, and eventually devastated the city of Jerusalem, destroying completely the magnificent Temple which had been built by Herod only eighty years earlier. What brought about this extraordinary conflict, with its extraordinary consequences? This superb book, by one of the world’s leading scholars of the ancient Roman and Jewish worlds, narrates and explains this titanic struggle, showing why Rome’s interests were served by this policy of brutal hostility, and how the first generation of Christians first distanced themselves from its Jewish origins and then became increasingly hostile to Jews as their influence spread within the empire. The book thus also provides an exceptional and original account of the origins of anti-Semitism, whose history has had often cataclysmic reverberations down to our own time.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Martin Goodman has divided his intellectual life between the Roman and Jewish worlds. He has edited both the Journal of Roman Studies and the Journal of Jewish Studies. He has taught Roman History at Birmingham and Oxford Universities, and is currently Professor of Jewish Studies at Oxford.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Allen Lane
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0713994479
• ISBN 13: 9780713994476
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 656
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