maps, stemma, notes, biblio ... the ancient Middle East and the final years of the Roman Republic and the first of the Empire. Note: Roman Conquests: Egypt and Judea is also available in paper back ...

The Roman Empire ... family in Judea. And it was under his kingship that post-Biblical Israel really rose to its political and material heights in the early days of the Roman Empire.

An army general who had been suppressing the rebellion in Judea, he wasted no time in establishing ... He terrorized leading Roman figures and executed or banished even his mildest critics.