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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Herodian"”.
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Rethinking the Third Century CE: Contemporary Historiography and Political Narrative
… of two contemporary witnesses, Cassius Dio and Herodian. Dio is the subject of my first discussion. I address two problems. Firstly, Dio’s contemporary history survives only through Byzantine epitomes and excerpts. Its irreparable alteration means that Dio’s later books cannot be treated in …
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Masada performances : the contested indentities of touristic spaces
Masada, a Herodian fortress and the site of an ancient struggle between Jews and Romans that culminated in a mass suicide by 960 Jews, is a symbolically important site for the country of Israel and for the Jewish people. Previous research on Masada has focused on how the story about the site, told …
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From hostage to historian: Josephus, the emperors, and the city of Rome
… and other inhabitants of Rome, including the Herodian princes and the patron of his final works, the freedman Epaphroditus, in an attempt to determine as clearly as possible the social circles in which he functioned as he lived out the final years of his life in the city of Rome.
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Sefer Tagin—Olde Face, Slab-Serifs and Semi-Ligatures. Covenantal warnings and reassurance. Re-housing the Temple within the Torah.
… that relate to the Tannaitic (late and post Herodian) period, most likely between 70 and 200 C.E. The three main causes of these special forms are preservation of archaic or older forms, semi-cursivity, preservation of archaic forms, and deliberate and specific ornamentation. Sometimes these …