Agrippa II: The Last of the Herods

ISBN-13: 9781138331815 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 232 str.

David Jacobson

Opis

Agrippa II is the first comprehensive biography of the last descendant of Herod the Great to rule as a client king of Rome. Agrippa was the last king to assume responsibility for the management of the Temple in Jerusalem, and he ultimately saw its destruction in the Judaean-Roman War.

Spis treści

List of Figures; List of Maps; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Key Dates; Stemma chart; Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. The Reliability of Josephus As a Historical Source for Agrippa II; Chapter 3. Agrippa’s Early Years; Chapter 4. Agrippa II in His Patrimony; Chapter 5. Agrippa’s Address to the Population of Jerusalem; Chapter 6. Agrippa II in the Opening Phase of the Judaean-Roman War; Chapter 7. From the Campaigns of Vespasian and Titus to the Conclusion of the War; Chapter 8. Agrippa’s Activities in the Aftermath of the War; Chapter 9. Conclusions; Appendix A1. Inscriptions Relating to the Reign of Agrippa II (David F. Graf); Appendix A2. The Coinage of Agrippa II; Bibliography; Index

O autorze

David Jacobson is Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of Classics at King’s College London, UK, where he also gained his PhD for a thesis entitled The Place of Herod’s Temple in the Architecture of the Augustan Age. He has published extensively on the history, art, architecture and numismatics of Judaea in the Hellenistic and early Roman Imperial periods, including The Hellenistic Paintings of Marisa (2007), Distant Views of the Holy Land (with Felicity Cobbing) and Antioch and Jerusalem: the Seleucids and Maccabees in Coins (both in 2015).