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Title

The Bar Kokhba war reconsidered : new perspectives on the second Jewish revolt against Rome / edited by Peter Schäfer.

Publication

Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, c2003.

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Additional Authors

Schäfer, Peter, 1943-

Description

xx, 313 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"This volume is based on a conference which took place in November 2001 at Princeton University and gathers a distinguished array of scholars working at the forefront of research on the Bar Kokhba period. It appraises the state of the subject in light of the present scholarly discussion and evaluates the historical importance of this major event and its repercussions for the subsequent history of the Jews in Roman Palestine. A concluding essay investigates the use of Bar Kokhba's image in modern Israeli culture."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Texte und Studien zum antiken Judentum ; 100

Uniform Title

Texte und Studien zum antiken Judentum ; 100.

Subject

• Bar Kochba, Simon, -135
• Bar Kochba
• 132-135
• Jews > History > Bar Kokhba Rebellion, 132-135
• Jews > History > Bar Kokhba Rebellion, 132-135 > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• History

Note

• Based on proceedings of a conference in Princeton, November 2001.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Preface / Peter Schafer -- Bar Kokhba and the Rabbis / Peter Schafer -- Trajan and the Origins of the Bar Kokhba War / Martin Goodman -- Numismatics and the Foundation of Aelia Capitolina: A Critical Review / Yoram Tsafrir -- Roman Religious Policy and the Bar Kokhba War / Benjamin Isaac -- The Ban of Circumcision as a Cause of the Revolt: A Reconsideration / Aharon Oppenheimer -- Negotiating Difference: Genital Mutilation in Roman Slave Law and the History of the Bar Kokhba Revolt / Ra'anan Abusch -- The Dates Used during the Bar Kokhba Revolt / Hanan Eshel -- The Geographical Scope of the Bar Kokhba Revolt / Menahem Mor -- The Bar Kokhba Revolt and the Documents from the Judaean Desert: Nabataean Participation in the Revolt (P. Yadin 52) / Hannah M. Cotton -- Hadrian, the Bar Kokhba Revolt, and the Epigraphic Transmission / Werner Eck -- The Tel Shalem Arch and P. Nahal Hever/Seiyal 8 / Glen W. Bowersock -- Hiding Complexes in Judaea: An Archaeological and Geographical Update on the Area of the Bar Kokhba Revolt / Amos Kloner and Boaz Zissu -- The Underground Hideouts in Galilee and Their Historical Meaning / Yuval Shahar -- The Urban Layout of Aelia Capitolina: A New View from the Perspective of the Temple Mount / Yaron Z. Eliav -- Bar Kokhba's Image in Modern Israeli Culture / Yael Zerubavel.

ISBN

3161480767 (cl.)

OCLC

• 52980274
• SCSB-12769917

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library