In this controversial book, the authors show how the Roman-Jewish wars were precipitated partly by Jewish demographic and religious expansion and by conflict with the Greeks and their culture. They argue that the trauma and humiliation of defeat, stimulated Jewish cultural growth, particularly in Hebrew, during and after the wars. This culture was an implicit rejection of Graeco-Roman civilization and values in favour of a more exclusivist religious-cultural nationalism. This form of nationalism, though unique in the ancient world, anticipates more recent cultural-national movements of defeated peoples.
- ISBN10 0312231911
- ISBN13 9780312231910
- Publish Date 19 August 2000 (first published 26 May 2000)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Palgrave MacMillan
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 170
- Language English