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Verlag: Brill, Leiden, 2009
ISBN 10: 9004165460ISBN 13: 9789004165465
Anbieter: ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, CA, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. First edition. Quarto. xiv, 502pp. Index. Red boards with olive-gray bands at head & foot, spine lettered in white. Illustrated with 83 pages of plates at rear (photos, drawings, ground plans, architectural elevations, etc.). A fine, as new copy. Elucidates the phenomenon of Herod the Great in the context of the Roman imperial order inaugurated by Augustus. It illuminates Herod's pre-eminent role in the Augustan client network and his remarkable energies, expressed in an extensive building programme which has left substantial remains. (OCLC) This volume brings together nineteen studies by foremost experts in the period of Herod and Augustus, and highlights recent progress in elucidating the phenomenon of Herod the Great in the context of the Roman imperial order inaugurated by Augustus. They illuminate Herod's pre-eminent role in the Augustan client network and his remarkable energies, expressed in an extensive building programme which has left substantial remains. The literary records of Herod's life and times, primarily by Josephus, are critically examined here in relation to the documentary and archaeological evidence. (Publisher) Contents: Augustus and Herodian ideology -- Literary and documentary evidence -- Augustan and Herodian building programmes -- Individual Herodian sites -- Applied arts in the Herodian kingdom -- Administration and client network -- Religion under Augustus and Herod. (OCLC) Volume 6 of the Brill series, "IJS Studies in Judaica.".