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02216aam a2200289 i 4500 001 8DE4B814383811EFBB58162234ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240702010121 008 230830t20242024ctub e b 001 0beng d 010 $a 2023941995 020 $a 0300228414 020 $a 9780300228410 035 $a (OCoLC)1395422175 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d OCLCO $d YUS $d OCLCO $d ZNS $d OCLCO $d SILO 043 $a a-is--- 100 1 $a Goodman, Martin, $d 1953- $e author. 245 10 $a Herod the Great : $b Jewish king in a Roman world / $c Martin Goodman. 246 30 $a Jewish king in a Roman world 264 1 $a New Haven ; $b Yale University Press, $c [2024] 300 $a viii, 227 pages : $b maps ; $c 22 cm. 490 1 $a Jewish lives 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "Herod the Great (73?4 BCE) was a phenomenally energetic ruler who took advantage of the chaos of the Roman revolution to establish himself as a major figure in a changing Roman world and transform the landscape of Judaea. Both Jews and Christians developed myths about his cruelty and rashness: in Christian tradition he was cast as the tyrant who ordered the Massacre of the Innocents; in the Talmud, despite fond memories of his glorious Temple in Jerusalem, he was recalled as a persecutor of rabbis. The life of Herod is better documented than that of any other Jew from antiquity, and Martin Goodman examines the extensive literary and archaeological evidence to provide a vivid portrait of Herod in his sociopolitical context: his Idumaean origins, his installation by Rome as king of Judaea and cultivation of leading Romans, his massive architectural projects, and his presentation of himself as a Jew, most strikingly through the rebuilding of the Jerusalem Temple. Goodman argues that later stories depicting Herod as a monster derived from public interest in his execution of three of his sons after dramatic public trials foisted on him by a dynastic policy imposed by the Roman emperor." -- book jacket. 830 0 $a Jewish lives (New Haven, Conn.) 941 $a 1 952 $l TDPH826 $d 20240702011745.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=8DE4B814383811EFBB58162234ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search