Land and Economy in Ancient Palestine Book

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
	List of Abbreviations
	Note on Quotations, Translations, and Transliterations
1	Introduction	1
	Land: its role in the economy and society	1
	Famine and landownership	3
	Dietary needs	4
	Population	6
	The size of plots	8
	Land uses	10
2	The Persian Period	13
	The return	13
	The food crisis	15
	The debt crisis	15
3	The Early Hellenistic Period	21
	Alexander the Great	21
	The Ptolemaic period	22
4	The Late Hellenistic Period	41
	The Seleucid period	41
	The Hellenistic reform	44
	The evil decrees	47
5	The Hasmoneans	53
	The Maccabean revolt	53
	The famine of 160 BCE	55
	Jonathan	62
	Simon	66
	John Hyrcanus I	68
	Judah Aristobolus I	72
	Alexander Yannai	73
	Shlomzion	82
6	The Early Roman Period	87
	The conquest	87
	Gabinius	90
	John Hyrcanus II	93
7	The Herodian Period	98
	Herod	98
	Archelaus	127
	Herod Antipas	131
8	Judea Under Direct Roman Rule	136
	The census of Quirinius	138
	The prefects	140
	The Jewish aristocracy	144
	The strike	150
	The famine	151
	Unemployment	156
	The Great Revolt	157
9	Epilogue: From Yavneh to Bar Kokhba	160
	Yavneh	160
	The revolt of Bar Kokhba	165
10	Conclusions	168
Appendix	weights and measures	171
	Notes	172
	Bibliography	249
	Index	278