Revolt and resistance in the ancient classical world and the Near East : in the crucible of empire / edited by John J. Collins and J.G. Manning.
Collins, John J. (John Joseph), 1946- editor.; Manning, Joseph Gilbert, editor.
2016
DS63.18 .R48 2016
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Title
Revolt and resistance in the ancient classical world and the Near East : in the crucible of empire / edited by John J. Collins and J.G. Manning.
ISBN
9789004330177 (hardback : alk. paper)
9789004330177
9789004330184 (e-book)
Published
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]
Copyright
©2016
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (312 pages) : illustration, map.
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DS63.18 .R48 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification
303.6/409394
Summary
This collection of essays contains a state of the field discussion about the nature of revolt and resistance in the ancient world. While it does not cover the entire ancient world, it does focus in on the key revolts of the pre-Roman imperial world. Regardless of the exact sequence, it was an undeniable fact that the area we now call the Middle East witnessed a sequence of extensive empires in the second half of the last millennium BCE. At first, these spread from East to West (Assyria, Babylon, Persia). Then after the campaigns of Alexander, the direction of conquest was reversed. Despite the sense of inevitability, or of divinely ordained destiny, that one might get from the passages that speak of a sequence of world-empires, imperial rule was always contested. The essays in this volume consider some of the ways in which imperial rule was resisted and challenged, in the Assyrian, Persian, and Hellenistic (Seleucid and Ptolemaic) empires. Not every uprising considered in this volume would qualify as a revolution by this definition. Revolution indeed was on the far end of a spectrum of social responses to empire building, from resistance to unrest, to grain riots and peasant rebellions. The editors offer the volume as a means of furthering discussions on the nature and the drivers of resistance and revolution, the motivations for them as well as a summary of the events that have left their mark on our historical sources long after the dust had settled.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Collins, John J. (John Joseph), 1946- editor.
Manning, Joseph Gilbert, editor.
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Culture and history of the ancient Near East ; v. 85.
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The Persian empire
Xerxes and the oathbreakers : empire and rebellion on the northwestern front / Matt Waters
Cyrus the younger and Artaxerxes II, 401 BC : an Achaemenid civil war reconsidered / John Lee
Resistance, revolt and revolution in Achaemenid Persia : a response / Elspeth R. M. Dusinberre
The Ptolemaic kingdom
Revolting subjects : empires and insurrection, ancient and modern / Brian McGing
Revolts under the Ptolemies : a paleoclimatological perspective / Francis Ludlow and J. G. Manning
The Seleucid empire
Resistance and revolt . the case of the Maccabees / Robert Doran
Temple or taxes? : what sparked the Maccabean revolt? / John J. Collins
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The importance of perspective : the Jewish-Roman conflict of 66-70 CE as a revolution / James McLaren and Martin Goodman
Josephus, Jewish resistance and the Masada myth / Tessa Rajak
The impact of the Jewish rebellions, 66-135 CE : destruction or provincialization? / Seth Schwartz.

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