King Herod: A Persecuted Persecutor : : A Case Study in Psychohistory and Psychobiography /

King Herod: A Persecuted Persecutor : : A Case Study in Psychohistory and Psychobiography / / Aryeh Kasher.

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The enigma of King Herod as a cruel bloodthirsty tyrant on one hand, and a great builder on the other. The contribution of a systematic modern psychologic study for unravel the contradictory historic mystery of the man and his deeds.

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VerfasserIn:
Kasher, Aryeh,
MitwirkendeR:
Gold, Karen,
Witztum, Eliezer,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2008]
©2007
Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
Series:Studia Judaica : Forschungen zur Wissenschaft des Judentums , 36
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Physical Description:1 online resource (514 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Residues of Childhood in the Late
  • Hasmonaean Period (73/72–63 BCE)
  • Chapter 2. Adolescence in the Shadow of the Roman
  • Conquest (63–42 BCE)
  • Chapter 3. From the Utmost Depths to the Conquest
  • of Jerusalem (41–37 BCE)
  • Chapter 4. Herod in the First Year of His Reign (37
  • BCE)
  • Chapter 5. Roots and Ramifications of the
  • Hasmonaean Trauma (37–34 BCE)
  • Chapter 6. Cleopatra VII’s Influence on Relations
  • between Herod and Antony (34–31 BCE)
  • Chapter 7. Elimination of Herod’s Hasmonaean Family
  • Members (30–28 BCE)
  • Chapter 8. Construction and Prosperity in the
  • Shadow of Oppression (27–10 BCE)
  • Chapter 9. Herod’s Address in Preparation for the
  • Building of the Holy Temple (22/23 BCE)
  • Chapter 10. Hidden Motivations for Building the
  • Holy Temple: “Rivalry” with the Hasmonaeans and a Desire to Flaunt His
  • Grandeur
  • Chapter 11. Return to Daily Reality amid New
  • Tensions (18–14 BCE)
  • Chapter 12. A Turn for the Worse at Home and
  • Continued Activity Abroad (14–10 BCE)
  • Chapter 13. Further Deterioration in Herod’s Mental
  • State and Worsening Relations with his Hasmonaean Sons (10–9
  • BCE)
  • Chapter 14. A Downward Spiral at Home and Abroad
  • (9–7 BCE)
  • Chapter 15. Lead-Up to the Great Explosion (8–7
  • BCE)
  • Chapter 16. The Tragic End of Alexander and
  • Aristobulus (7 BCE)
  • Chapter 17. Antipater’s Subversion in the Royal
  • Court of Jerusalem (7–5 BCE)
  • Chapter 18. The Bitter Fate of Antipater
  • Chapter 19. Descent into Oblivion (4 BCE)
  • Chapter 20. Post-Mortem
  • Afterword
  • Backmatter

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