: a history of Jews and Christians from the Babylonian exile to the advent of Islam
/ Leo Dupree Sandgren.
Peabody, Mass.:
Hendrickson Publishers,
2010.
xxv, 838 p. ;
23 cm. +
1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)
CD-ROM contains entire text in searchable PDF format.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
From Josiah to the fall of Jerusalem (640-586 B.C.E.) -- Exile and return (586-500 B.C.E.) -- Restoration of Judah (500-400 B.C.E.) -- The Hellenistic age begins (400-301 B.C.E.) -- Ptolemaic era (301-201 B.C.E.) -- The Maccabean revolt (201-161 B.C.E.) -- Rise and fall of the Hasmonean kingdom (161-67 B.C.E.) -- The coming of Rome (67-27 B.C.E.) -- Pax Augusta and Herod the Great (27 B.C.E.-14 C.E.) -- Birth of the Nazarenes (14-37 C.E.) -- A troubled diaspora for Jews and Jewish believers (37-54 C.E.) -- The Great War (54-70 C.E.) -- Jews and Christians without a temple (70-117 C.E.) -- Farewell Jerusalem: the last Jewish war (117-138 C.E.) -- Antonine peace and the struggles of Jews and Christians (138-192 C.E.) -- Severan decay, Christian growth, and the glory of Judah the Prince (192-235 C.E.) -- Roman empire in crisis and the rise of Sasanian Persia (235-284 C.E.) -- Diocletian and the Great persecution of the Church (284-312 C.E.) -- Constantine and the Christian empire (312-337 C.E.) -- Julian the Apostate: a dilemma for Christians and Jews (337-364 C.E.) -- Theodosius I: the Christianization of Hellenes and Jews (364-395 C.E.) -- Fall of Rome, doctors of the Church, and new heights for the Patriarch and Exilarch (395-420 C.E.) -- The sun sets in the West and the demise of the Jewish Patriarchate (420-455 C.E.) -- End of the old Roman empire and the persecution of Persian Jews (455-491 C.E.) -- Religious tolerance in the West and the expansion of Christians and Jews in the East (491-526 C.E.) -- Justinian's Byzantine Rome and the impact of Caesaropapism on Christians, Pagans, Samaritans, and Jews (526-565 C.E.) -- A papal throne for Christians and Jews (565-602 C.E.) -- Last great war in antiquity and the advent of Islam (602-640 C.E.)