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Rome and Jerusalem: The Clash of Ancient Civilizations

Door Martin Goodman

Categorie
Geschiedenis Europa
Boeknummer
#407432-XS18
Titel
Rome and Jerusalem: The Clash of Ancient Civilizations
Auteur
Goodman, Martin
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
London : Penguin Books
Jaar van uitgave
2008
ISBN10
014029127X
ISBN13
9780140291278
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Paperback, illustrations in b/w, 8vo.
Samenvatting
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... (Lees verder) 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.
Pagina's
638
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 10,00

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