The Middle East under Rome /
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Cambridge, Massachusetts London:
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2005
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- 1) The Hellenistic Legacy [The Creation of New States; Syria between Parthians, Romans, and Armenians]
- 2) The End of Seleucid Syria and the First Roman Rule (69-31 B.C.E.) [The Beginnings of Roman Intervention; Pompey and Syria; Syria at the Time of the Roman Civil War]
- 3) From Augustus to Trajan: Creating a Province [The Provincia and Its Governors; The Defenses of Imperial Syria in the First Century; The Client States in the First Century C.E.]
- 4) The Crises in Judaea from Herod to Bar Kokhba [Herod the Great; Herodʹs Heirs; The Era of Prefects and Procurators; The Revolt of 66-70 and Its Consequences; From the Fall of the Temple to Bar Kokhba]
- 5) From Trajan to the Severi: Conquests and Reorganizations [New Provinces, New Divisions; Defense of the Country and Roman Campaigns]
- 6) Civic Life and Urban Development during the Early Empire [The Spread of the Polis and the Creation of Colonies; The Structure and Organization of Municipal Life; City Profiles]
- 7) Rural Life in the Early Empire [Land Tenure and Land Use; Agricultural Practices and Production; Villages and Village Communities; Nomads]
- 8) The Urban Economy in Roman Syria [Artisans; Money and Customs Duties; Roads and Ports; Local and Foreign Trade]
- 9) Hellenization and Indigenous Cultures [Syrian Hellenism; Indigenous Cultures]
- 10) Pagans, Jews, and Christians in Roman Syria in the Second and Third Centuries [Gods and Pagan Sanctuaries; Rabbinical Judaism; The Beginnings of Christianization]
- 11) A Time of Trials [Edessa, Hatra, and Dura-Europos; Palmyra; Phylarchs and Nomad Chiefs].