... Asia, The Mediterranean, Europe, and Mesoamerica EDITED IV Kurt Raaflaub 6-Nathan Rosenstein ... more ... Asia, The Mediterranean, Europe, and Mesoamerica EDITED IV Kurt Raaflaub 6-Nathan Rosenstein Center fo r Hellenic Studies Trustees for Harvard University W....,INGrotl, DC Distributed by H.",lrd Ul'Iiftfiitr PtCOI Cambrids<, MUN<:~">tU..n<! to"""", Enfll.nd 'm • ...
No trial and execution have generated more literature or speculation than thpse of Jesus of Nazar... more No trial and execution have generated more literature or speculation than thpse of Jesus of Nazareth. Yet, they have never been examined as an intelligence problem for the Roman governor of Jerusalem. Who was Jesus and the men who surrounded him? Were they involved in an attempted insurrection to overthrow Roman rule? It was the job of Pontius Pilate and his security staff to answer these questions. He had no way of knowing the political, social and religious repercussions his actions would cause, but his decision to execute Jesus was a rational one based on the intelligence he had at hand.
Goodman, Professor of Jewish Studies at Oxford, and a scholar who has had the unique distinction ... more Goodman, Professor of Jewish Studies at Oxford, and a scholar who has had the unique distinction of having edited both the Journal of Roman Studies and the Journal of Jewish Studies, now draws on his dual expertise to produce a magisterial work that will please many and disturb others. The work is aimed at a general audience with little or no background in the subject and therefore has minimal footnotes by scholarly standards and no bibliography. It is logically and clearly written and will be easily comprehensible to the non-specialist. The book sets out to answer one single question – was the Great Jewish War of A.D. 66–70 inevitable? This argument will seem familiar to those who know Samuel P. Huntington’s concept of an inevitable ‘clash of civilizations,’ a theory that still underlies much of American neoconservative thinking in Middle Eastern affairs today. If inevitability is not the answer, as Goodman argues, then how do we explain what brought these two great cultures to blows and the eventual destruction of the Jewish state? The first two parts of the book lay out a lively and informative description of Roman and Jewish civilizations. How did the two groups live? What did they eat? What did they read? How did they worship or express themselves politically? What was their attitude toward sex and violence? There is a
... Asia, The Mediterranean, Europe, and Mesoamerica EDITED IV Kurt Raaflaub 6-Nathan Rosenstein ... more ... Asia, The Mediterranean, Europe, and Mesoamerica EDITED IV Kurt Raaflaub 6-Nathan Rosenstein Center fo r Hellenic Studies Trustees for Harvard University W....,INGrotl, DC Distributed by H.",lrd Ul'Iiftfiitr PtCOI Cambrids<, MUN<:~">tU..n<! to"""", Enfll.nd 'm • ...
No trial and execution have generated more literature or speculation than thpse of Jesus of Nazar... more No trial and execution have generated more literature or speculation than thpse of Jesus of Nazareth. Yet, they have never been examined as an intelligence problem for the Roman governor of Jerusalem. Who was Jesus and the men who surrounded him? Were they involved in an attempted insurrection to overthrow Roman rule? It was the job of Pontius Pilate and his security staff to answer these questions. He had no way of knowing the political, social and religious repercussions his actions would cause, but his decision to execute Jesus was a rational one based on the intelligence he had at hand.
Goodman, Professor of Jewish Studies at Oxford, and a scholar who has had the unique distinction ... more Goodman, Professor of Jewish Studies at Oxford, and a scholar who has had the unique distinction of having edited both the Journal of Roman Studies and the Journal of Jewish Studies, now draws on his dual expertise to produce a magisterial work that will please many and disturb others. The work is aimed at a general audience with little or no background in the subject and therefore has minimal footnotes by scholarly standards and no bibliography. It is logically and clearly written and will be easily comprehensible to the non-specialist. The book sets out to answer one single question – was the Great Jewish War of A.D. 66–70 inevitable? This argument will seem familiar to those who know Samuel P. Huntington’s concept of an inevitable ‘clash of civilizations,’ a theory that still underlies much of American neoconservative thinking in Middle Eastern affairs today. If inevitability is not the answer, as Goodman argues, then how do we explain what brought these two great cultures to blows and the eventual destruction of the Jewish state? The first two parts of the book lay out a lively and informative description of Roman and Jewish civilizations. How did the two groups live? What did they eat? What did they read? How did they worship or express themselves politically? What was their attitude toward sex and violence? There is a
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