دانلود کتاب The Herods: Murder, Politics, and the Art of Succession

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Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Preface
Introduction
1. Antipater
Setting
The Maccabees
The Essenes
Antipater in the Maccabean Hegemony
2. Herod’s Debut
Caesar and Antipater in the Conquest of Egypt
Caesar’s Man in Judea
Jerusalem, Religious Politics, and the Sanhedrin
Herod’s Campaign in Galilee
Hybris
3. King Herod
Death, Revenge, and the Parthian Threat
Theoretical Monarch
King of the Jews
4. Mariamme
Marital and Priestly Strategies
Cleopatra
Octavian and the Imperial Transition
A Time to Build and a Time to Tear Down
5. Archelaus
Introduction
Archelaus’s Play for Power
Imperial Intervention
The End of Archelaus and the Sadducees’ Opportunity
6. Antipas, Herodias, and Philip
Salvaging the Dynasty: Antipas and Philip
Antipas’s Tiberian Breakout
Executing John the Baptist
Pontius Pilate, Jesus, and Antipas’s Ambitions
7. Agrippa I
Agrippa’s Revenge
The Edict of Caligula
The Claudian Settlement and Agrippa’s Glory
After Agrippa
8. Bereniké and Agrippa II
The Queen
The Neronian Opportunity, Confrontations in Jerusalem
Open War
Defeat and the Last Herodian Meteorite
Epilogue
Chronology
Dramatis personae
Notes
Bibliography of Sources
Index of Historical Figures
Index of Scholars