David Jacobson

Agrippa II (eBook, PDF)

The Last of the Herods

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Agrippa II is the first comprehensive biography of the last descendant of Herod the Great to rule as a client king of Rome. Agrippa was the last king to assume responsibility for the management of the Temple in Jerusalem, and he ultimately saw its destruction in the Judaean-Roman War.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429823589
• Artikelnr.: 57083161

Autorenporträt

David Jacobson is Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of Classics at King's College London, UK, where he also gained his PhD for a thesis entitled The Place of Herod's Temple in the Architecture of the Augustan Age. He has published extensively on the history, art, architecture and numismatics of Judaea in the Hellenistic and early Roman Imperial periods, including The Hellenistic Paintings of Marisa (2007), Distant Views of the Holy Land (with Felicity Cobbing) and Antioch and Jerusalem: the Seleucids and Maccabees in Coins (both in 2015).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
List of Maps
Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Key Dates
Stemma chart
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. The Reliability of Josephus As a Historical Source for Agrippa II
Chapter 3. Agrippa's Early Years
Chapter 4. Agrippa II in His Patrimony
Chapter 5. Agrippa's Address to the Population of Jerusalem
Chapter 6. Agrippa II in the Opening Phase of the Judaean-Roman War
Chapter 7. From the Campaigns of Vespasian and Titus to the Conclusion of the War
Chapter 8. Agrippa's Activities in the Aftermath of the War
Chapter 9. Conclusions
Appendix A1. Inscriptions Relating to the Reign of Agrippa II (David F. Graf)
Appendix A2. The Coinage of Agrippa II
Bibliography
Index