The Middle East under Rome / Maurice Sartre ; translated by Catherine Porter and Elizabeth Rawlings with Jeannine Routier-Pucci.

Hellenistic legacy
End of Seleucid Syria and the first Roman rule
From Augustus to Trajan: creating a province
Crises in Judaea from Herod to Bar Kokhba
From Trajan to the Severi: conquests and reorganizations
Civic life and urban development during the early empire
Rural life in the early empire
The urban economy in Roman Syria
Hellenization and indigenous cultures
Pagans, Jews, and Christians in Roman Syria in the second and third centuries
A time of trials.