Anthony Keddie

Class and Power in Roman Palestine

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examines how socioeconomic relations between Judaean elites and non-elites changed as Palestine became part of the Roman Empire.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 380
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 768g
• ISBN-13: 9781108493949
• ISBN-10: 1108493947
• Artikelnr.: 56024770

Autorenporträt

Anthony Keddie holds a M.A. from Yale Divinity School and a Ph.D. from the University of Texas, Austin. A former SBL Regional Scholar, Keddie is the author of Revelations of Ideology: Apocalyptic Class Politics in Early Roman Palestine (2018) and co-author of Jewish Fictional Letters from Hellenistic Egypt (2018).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Urban development and the new elites
2. Land tenancy and agricultural labor: 'the land is mine'
3. Taxation: render unto Caesar and the local elites
4. Economy of the sacred
5. Material culture from table to grave
Conclusion
Appendix A. Herodian rulers
Appendix B. High priests during the Early Roman period
Appendix C. Palmyra duties (137 CE).