Rethinking the Jewish War: Archeology, Society, Traditions

Edited by A. Giambrone

Book cover: Rethinking the Jewish War: Archeology, Society, Traditions

Extent: 356 pages

Publisher: Peeters Publishers

Subjects: Ancient Near East, Jewish Studies, Religious Studies

Series: Études Bibliques. Nouvelle Série

Series volume number: 84

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(January 2021)

ISBN: 9789042943018

Price: $107.00

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eBook (Published)

(January 2021)

ISBN: 9789042943025

Price: $134.00

This interdisciplinary collection of fifteen papers probes key aspects of the First Jewish Revolt from a wide variety of perspectives: archeology, Roman military, administration, and ethos, Second Temple Jewish society, and rabbinic and early Christian reception. Delivered at a large international conference organized at the Ecole biblique et archeologique francaise de Jerusalem in 2018, the contributions respond to many classic questions about the reliability of Josephus and interact in various ways with Steve Mason’s major study, A History of the Jewish War (Cambridge, 2016), including his controversial views on the scope and religious nature of the conflict. Mason’s own response comprises the final chapter.


This interdisciplinary collection of fifteen papers probes key aspects of the First Jewish Revolt from a wide variety of perspectives: archeology, Roman military, administration, and ethos, Second Temple Jewish society, and rabbinic and early Christian reception. Delivered at a large international conference organized at the Ecole biblique et archeologique francaise de Jerusalem in 2018, the contributions respond to many classic questions about the reliability of Josephus and interact in various ways with Steve Mason’s major study, A History of the Jewish War (Cambridge, 2016), including his controversial views on the scope and religious nature of the conflict. Mason’s own response comprises the final chapter.

  • Edited by A. Giambrone