First Published in 1995, the main emphasis of this book is on the political history of the Jews in Palestine, where "political" is to be understood not as the mere succession of rulers and battles but as the interaction between political activity and social, economic and religious circumstances. A particular concern is the investigation of social and economic conditions in the history of Palestinian Judaism.
Alexander the Great and the Diadochi; Palestine under Ptolemaic rule; Palestine under the Seleucid rule (200-135/63 BCE); the Hasmonean dynasty; Herod the Great (37-4BCE); from Herod to the first Jewish war; the first Jewish war (66-74CE); between the wars - the first Jewish war from 74 to 132 CE; the Bar Kochba Revolt to the Arab conquest of Palestine.
