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  • CHAPTER 1 - Urban Development and the New Elites

  • Anthony Keddie, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
  • Book:
    Class and Power in Roman Palestine
    Published online:
    03 October 2019
    Print publication:
    03 October 2019, pp 16-70

  • Summary

    Chapter 1 examines urban development in the predominately Judaean parts of Palestine. It demonstrates that urban development involved the gradual administrative, physical, and cultural transformation of Hellenistic settlements. Elite interests fueled urban development, but involved more than just consumption and exploitation. In Jerusalem, urban development stimulated trade and technological development, created jobs, and bolstered the pilgrimage economy centered on the Temple. The pace of urban development in the Galilee was slower than is usually presumed. Archaeological evidence shows that Tiberias witnessed considerable transformations in the first half of the first century CE, but Sepphoris did not become a proper city (polis) until the second half of that century. In order to complicate the assumptions about urban exploitation of rural producers, this chapter calls attention to the proliferation and relative stability of Galilean villages. It also highlights the diverse economic activities in semi-urban district centers like Magdala. Although most elites lived in cities, some resided in these district centers.

  • 14d - Judaea

  • from 14 - The East
    • By Martin Goodman, Reader in Jewish Studies, University of Oxford, and Fellow of Wolf son College
  • Edited by Alan K. Bowman, University of Oxford, Edward Champlin, Princeton University, New Jersey, Andrew Lintott, University of Oxford
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Ancient History
    Published online:
    28 March 2008
    Print publication:
    08 February 1996, pp 737-781

  • Summary

    Herod to some extent presented himself as a Jewish monarch, and for some Romans his family were seen as representative of Jewry. But his rule over Judaea was inaugurated in 40 B. C and preserved until c. 4 B. C almost entirely at the behest of Rome. Herod was granted the throne of Judaea and Samaria by the triumvirs with the support of the Senate in autumn 40 BC Apart from the brief period (AD 41-4) when Agrippa I reigned, the same kind of Roman administration remained in force until AD 66, when a great rebellion led first to the establishment of an independent Jewish state and then to the fall of that state in an orgy of violence. The most important factor in the development of, and growth of tensions within, Judaean society in the first centuries B. C and AD was the economic role of the Jerusalem Temple.