Table of Contents

Illustrations, Figures and Maps
Acknowledgements

Introduction: The Main Witness
Prologue: The Destruction of Jerusalem

Part one: A Mediterranean World

Chapter one: A Tale of Two Cities
Chapter two: One World Under Rome
Chapter three: Diversity and Toleration

Part two: Romans and Jews

Chapter four: Identities
Chapter five: Communities
Chapter six: Perspectives
Chapter seven: Lifestyles
Chapter eight: Government
Chapter nine: Politics
Chapter ten: Romans and Jews

Part three: Conflict

Chapter eleven: The Road to Destruction
Chapter twelve: Reactions
Chapter thirteen: The Growth of the Church
Chapter fourteen: A New Rome and a New Jerusalem
Epilogue: The Origins of Antisemitism

Notes
Further Reading
Index

About the Author

Martin Goodman has divided his intellectual life between the Roman and Jewish worlds. He has edited both the Journal of Roman Studies and the Journal of Jewish Studies. He has taught Roman History at Birmingham and Oxford Universities, and is currently Professor of Jewish Studies at Oxford. He is a Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, and of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. In 1996 he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy. In 2002 he edited the Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies, which was awarded a National Jewish Book Award for Scholarship. He lives with his family in Birmingham.

Reviews

“Magnificent. . . . A fascinating and extremely rich history. . . . An engrossing double portrait that shows how much our own civilization owes to both Jerusalem and Rome.” —The New York Sun“Innovative. . . . A complicated bit of history brilliantly told.” —St. Louis Post-Dispatch“Well-written, detailed and meticulous. . . . Provides an intricate examination of life in the first century.” —The Dallas Morning News“A triumph. Goodman's scrupulous care with his sources, his eye for telling detail and his easy prose style combine to produce a work that will reward any reader.” —Jerusalem Post

"Magnificent. . . . A fascinating and extremely rich history. . . . An engrossing double portrait that shows how much our own civilization owes to both Jerusalem and Rome." -The New York Sun"Innovative. . . . A complicated bit of history brilliantly told." -St. Louis Post-Dispatch"Well-written, detailed and meticulous. . . . Provides an intricate examination of life in the first century." -The Dallas Morning News"A triumph. Goodman's scrupulous care with his sources, his eye for telling detail and his easy prose style combine to produce a work that will reward any reader." -Jerusalem Post