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

Weitere Verfasser: Collins, John Joseph, 1946-
Manning, Joseph Gilbert
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Leiden, Boston : Brill, 2016.
Umfang/Format: vi, 304 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Schriftenreihe: Culture and history of the ancient near East; v. 85
Inhaltsangabe:
  • 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