Revolt and resistance in the ancient classical world and the Near East : : in the crucible of empire /

Revolt and resistance in the ancient classical world and the Near East : : in the crucible of empire / / edited by John J. Collins and J.G. Manning.

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This collection of essays contains a state of the field discussion about the nature of revolt and resistance in the ancient world. While it does not cover the entire ancient world, it does focus in on the key revolts of the pre-Roman imperial world. Regardless of the exact sequence, it was an undeni...

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Superior document:Culture and history of the ancient Near East, volume 85
TeilnehmendeR:
Collins, John J. 1946-
Manning, Joseph Gilbert,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Culture and history of the ancient Near East ; v. 85.
Physical Description:1 online resource (312 pages) :; illustration, map.
Notes:Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Table of Contents:
  • When is a revolt not a revolt? : a case for contingency / Erich S. Gruen
  • Assyria and Babylonia
  • Revolts in the Assyrian empire : succession wars, rebellions against a false king, and independence movements / Karen Radner
  • Assyria's demise as recompense : a note on narratives of resistance in Babylonia and Judah / Peter R. Bedford
  • Revolts in the Neo-Assyrian empire : a preliminary discourse analysis / Eckart Frahm
  • The Persian empire
  • Xerxes and the oathbreakers : empire and rebellion on the northwestern front / Matt Waters
  • Cyrus the younger and Artaxerxes II, 401 BC : an Achaemenid civil war reconsidered / John Lee
  • Resistance, revolt and revolution in Achaemenid Persia : a response / Elspeth R. M. Dusinberre
  • The Ptolemaic kingdom
  • Revolting subjects : empires and insurrection, ancient and modern / Brian McGing
  • Revolts under the Ptolemies : a paleoclimatological perspective / Francis Ludlow and J. G. Manning
  • The Seleucid empire
  • Resistance and revolt . the case of the Maccabees / Robert Doran
  • Temple or taxes? : what sparked the Maccabean revolt? / John J. Collins
  • The Roman empire
  • The importance of perspective : the Jewish-Roman conflict of 66-70 CE as a revolution / James McLaren and Martin Goodman
  • Josephus, Jewish resistance and the Masada myth / Tessa Rajak
  • The impact of the Jewish rebellions, 66-135 CE : destruction or provincialization? / Seth Schwartz.

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