| Description |
1 online resource (304 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
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 Agrippa |
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18: Agrippa II and The Procurators19: The Fall of Jerusalem; 20: Son of The Star; Back Matter; Suggested Further Reading |
| Summary |
The 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 .. |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 29, 2015) |
| Subject |
Jews -- History -- 586 B.C.-70 A.D.
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Jews -- History -- 168 B.C.-135 A.D.
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Jews
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Donovan, James M., author of introduction, etc
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Carvalho, Cleiton Pereira, cover designer
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| ISBN |
9780989328043 |
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098932804X |
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9780989328036 |
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0989328031 |
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