Jerusalem : portrait of the city in the second Temple period (538 B.C.E.-70 C.E.) / [Lee I. Levine].

Author: Levine, Lee I.
Published: Philadelphia : Jewish Publication Society, published in cooperation with the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, [2002]
Copyright Date: ©2002
Edition: 1st ed.
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 486 pages) : illustrations, maps

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English.

Contents

pt. I. From Cyrus to the Hasmoneans. The Persian era (539-332 B.C.E.) -- The Hellenistic era (332-141 B.C.E.) -- The Hasmonean era (141-63 B.C.E.) -- pt. II. Herodian Jerusalem. The historical dimension -- The urban landscape -- The Temple and Temple Mount -- Jerusalem in the Greco-Roman orbit: the extent and limitations of cultural fusion -- pt. III. The first century C.E. The historical dimension -- The urban configuration -- Social stratification -- Religious ambience -- The destruction of Jerusalem (66-70 C.E.).

Subject(s)

586 B.C.-210 A.D
Jews—History—586 B.C.-70 A.D.
Judaism—History—Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D.
Juifs—Histoire—586 av. J.-C.-70.
Judaïsme—Histoire—586 av. J.-C.-210 (Période postexilique)
HISTORY—Ancient—General
Jews
Judaism—Post-exilic period (Judaism)
Jerusalem—History
Palestine—History—586 B.C.-70 A.D.
Jérusalem—Histoire
Middle East—Jerusalem
Middle East—Palestine
Jeruzalem

Genre(s)

History

ISBN

9780827609563 (electronic bk.)
0827609566 (electronic bk.)
0827607504
9780827607507

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text file

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 423-469) and index.

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