The Rise and Fall of Jewish Nationalism; Jewish and Christian Ethnicity in Ancient Palestine Book

Introduction: The Problem

1. Nationalism in the Hellenistic World in the Third Through First Centuries B.C.E.
2. Nationalism and the Concept of History in the Ancient Near East
3. Jewish Kingship in the Hasmonean Period
4. The Concept of Territory: Borders and Boundaries (200-63 B.C.E.)
5. Jerusalem: Capital, Temple, and Cult (200-63 B.C.E.)
6. From Militia to Army, 168-63 B.C.E.
7. The Jewish Nationalistic Movement—After the Roman Occupation of Palestine
8. Kingship after the Roman Occupation—From Basileia to Alternative Concepts
9. From the Territorial to the A-Territorial (after the Roman Occupation)
10. Jerusalem and the Temple, 63 B.C.E.-66 C.E.
11. The Army, 63 B.C.E.-70 C.E.
12. Nationalism in Revolution: The Great War Against Rome (66-70 C.E.)
13. The 'Polemus Quietus' and the Revolt of Bar Kokhba, 132-135 C.E.

Epilogue: What Did Greek and Latin Authors Think of Jewish Nationalism?

Map of the Maccabean Period
Map of Herod's Kingdom
Map of the Division of Herod's Kingdom
Map of the Kingdom of Agrippa I
Map of the Roman Empire from Augustus to Trajan and Hadrian

Selected Bibliography
Index of Texts
Index of Scholars
Subject Index