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Rome and Jerusalem: The Clash of Ancient Civilizations by: Martin Goodman List Price: £9.99 City Travel Guides Price: £6.44 You Save: £3.55 (36%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback EAN: 9780140291278 ISBN: 014029127X Label: Penguin Books Ltd Manufacturer: Penguin Books Ltd Number Of Pages: 656 Publication Date: January 31, 2008 Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Studio: Penguin Books Ltd Sales Rank: 21752 Related Items:
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Editorial Review: Diarmaid MacCulloch, the Guardian: 'Martin Goodman's massive new treatment of two crucial centuries of Jewish history should be read by anyone seeking seriously to understand modern Middle Eastern tangles' Paul Johnson, the Tablet: 'This is an important book, on a difficult subject: the reason why the Romans, who had so much in common with the Jews, sought to destroy the Jews and Judaism completely. Only one man could have written it.' Tom Holland, Sunday Times: 'Sombre and magisterial ... a brilliant comparative survey of the two very different civilisations' Rabbi David J Goldberg, the Independent: 'A monumental work of scholarship ... the parallels with modern day Baghdad are all the more resonant for Goodman studiously avoiding them.' The Economist: 'An impressive, scholarly book' Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - A masterly description of the Jewish revolts against Rome in 66 and 135 AD.This is probably the most authoritative book over written on the Jewish revolts. It has the added strength of describing the second revolt, which Jospehus didn't witness. He also looks at the Christian role in the revolt. Goodman brings a huge array of ancient sources, including the often neglected Talmudic sources and archaeological evidence. One gets the sense that there isn't any source which hasn't been covered. The book is readable and modern in its analysis of questions of identity in the ancient world and relevant to today in raising questions about the origins of antisemitism and the Jewish presence in the area. Rating: - Two millenia on, reprocussions for us all...A major historical faultline in the history of the world is the destruction of the Jewish temple by the Roman army in 70 CE. This truly the point of origin of the crisis in the Middle East, and is a starting point of the Jewish Diaspora and central event in the history of the Jewish faith and the genesis of Christianity. By comparison with the tonnage of popular works on Greece, Egypt, and Rome, this moment of history seems strangely neglected. No longer. This book is a singularly professional and readable history by a fine writer and a highly effective scholar. It consists of parallel histories of the two cities, their inhabitants, the faiths they represented and the cultures that existed amongst them, and is a fascinating comparison ... Read More: Rating:  - Differences yes; but Goodman does not really see it as a necessary clashThe title of this book and the Prologue about the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans in 70 CE might lead one to expect that this book would focus on the direct relationships between Rome and the Judean provinces over which it acquired formal or informal control from about 63 BCE onwards. Had it done that, it would have been much shorter than it is. We will indeed learn what brought the two societies into such violent conflict in the end; but for the most part the Romans tolerated great differences in the life-styles and institutions in the empire they controlled. With the exception of Caligula, they even allowed the Jews freedom from Emperor worship, and they exempted Jews from having to pay taxes in Sabbath years (one in seven) when Jewish law ... Read More: |
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