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“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

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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.

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Paperback: 640 pages

Publisher: Vintage; Reprint edition (November 11, 2008)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 9780375726132

ISBN-13: 978-0375726132

ASIN: 0375726136

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5.2 x 1.4 x 8 inches

Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)

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4.4 out of 5 stars

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#275,226 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Much has been written about the first century CE - it not only witnessed the emergence of Christianity, but also the demise of the Roman Republic and the birth of the Roman empire. Goodman is less concerned with Christianity (for those interested in this, I recommend Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography,Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth, and especially Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew) than with a comparative history of Rome and Jerusalem in the 1st Century BCE and 1st Century CE. Therefore, this may not be the book for you.Goodman's analysis is deep and broad - and the similarities between Roman and Jewish culture during this time are astounding. The cultural and religious identities, lifestyles and especially the intertwining politics of these two important cultural, religious and yes - political - centers give tremendous insight into the nature of conflict between Rome and Jerusalem that ultimately resulted in the Jewish uprising of 66 - 68. Naturally Josephus (The Jewish War: Revised Edition (Penguin Classics)) is heavily relied upon in writing this historical narrative, but Godwin also relies on artistic and archeological evidence as well as a sophisticated understanding of Roman politics during the time period. The result is a very well-rounded and complex picture of how Rome understood their Jewish subjects (and in some cases, citizens) and how Jews in the Roman world saw and understood their Roman overlords.For readers more interested in the birth, growth and spread of Christianity, Goodwin does not disappoint - the previous 480-odd pages prior to his addressing these events are important - crucial, even - to understanding what is going on, but impatient readers certainly can skip to the last several chapters and will be rewarded with a thoughtful and incisive critique of the "New Rome" and "New Jerusalem" that emerge._Rome and Jerusalem_ is an exhaustive, detailed history but readers will be rewarded with a much more sophisticated and complete understanding of the Roman (and Christian) world. Recommended.

Martin Goodman is one of the current heavyweight historians of the Roman period of biblical times. To put this into context, Goodman recently edited the Oxford Bible Commentary on the Apocrypha, an assignment Oxford University Press would not offer and any serious scholar would not accept lightly. As far as I can determine this book may be the most widely published and popularly read work by Goodman to date. I hope that he will continue to publish accessible work of this caliber in the future.This is not just a straightforward account of the events preceding and following the destruction of the Second Temple of Jerusalem in 70 CE. Instead Goodman lays out in detail many aspects of the social, economic, religious, political and military context of the times, not only of Rome and Jerusalem but also other contemporary cultures. This results in a synthesis of sometimes segregated fields of study.One problem of the approach may lie in the many paths that are pursued. Since this is not simply a narrative of events and combines thematic history as well, there are times the reader may feel adrift. In the end, patience is rewarded, and the story returns to the question stated at the outset: how it came to be that the pragmatic paganism of the Romans and the monotheistic faith of the Judeans clashed and were eventually superseded by Christianity.Goodman deconstructs the classic dualism between the city of God vs. the city of Man. Jerusalem's theocracy (a term said to have been coined by Josephus) had peacefully co-existed with the Roman monarchy before. Civil chaos in Rome following the death of Nero would eventually lead to the destruction of the Second Temple by Vespasian and his heir Titus during the Jewish War of 66-73.Following the cataclysmic reduction of Jerusalem, Goodman traces the repression of Jews by Rome, and the eventual rise of Christianity during the early 4th century. One of the key points regarding this period is how it became expedient to distance the New Testament faith from Judaism for political reasons. This is explored as one of the factors in the advent of early anti-semitism. There is not much controversy in Goodman's analysis, and the book reflects well on the top-notch​ research and scholarship of the author.

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