Divided We Fall: The Roots of the Great Jewish Revolt against Rome
The major divide between the advocates and opponents of the war can be drawn along the line of class and religious belief. In general, it was the lower-class, faced with severe economic and religious oppression by
What the Roman emperor Tiberius grew in his greenhouses
Apparently the specularia were built to provide, in Pliny
Patriotism and some related aspects of Roman character
Rome levelled her subjects in crashing, shattering defeat and then lifted them up to share a pride in her that could capture the discriminating Jewish intelligence of a Paul. Her supreme victory came when the superiority and desirability of her civilization were admitted among civilized men.
"A Sight Unfit to See": Jewish Reactions to the Roman Imperial Cult
The general question of the relationship between the Jews and the imperial cult has received very little attention in modern literature. It is, of course, universally assumed that Jews would not have been willing to acknowledge an emperor
The Bones of Saint Peter
Sometime in AD 48, Peter had a tense meeting in Jerusalem with an enthusiastic missionary called Paul, who had been travelling among the peoples of the Near East, spreading news of Jesus’ teachings. Peter and his Jewish friends in Jerusalem were anxious that male converts to the new sect should be circumcised, as a sign that their commitment was genuine.
Moses in historiography from Hellenistic Alexandria to Josephus
The image of Moses is not fixed from author to author. Rather, the historians took special interest in Moses
A Journey Into the Land of No Return: Death Attitudes and Perceptions of Death and Afterlife in Ancient Near Eastern Literature
While death anxiety and death acceptance are present in all four groups, death anxiety is most prevalent in regard to a fear of untimely or tragic death, or in regard to regret of having no or few progeny.
Religious Toleration and Political Power in the Roman World
From the beginning of the Roman republic to the end of the empire, a theory of religious toleration never existed to give the people ruled by Rome a choice as to which deities and rituals they wanted to believe in.
Roman Siege Machinery and the Siege of Masada
This document explores some of Ancient Rome
God and King: Interaction between Jewish and Greek Laws in Antiochus III
In this chapter I will discuss two examples of the juridical interaction between Greeks and Jews in Jerusalem during the Hellenistic Age