Introduction
Preface to the Revised Edition
Contents
List of Illustrations
CHRONOLOGICAL TABLES.
Themes for Discussion
BOOK I. JUDEA, A VASSAL STATE.
CHAPTER I. UNDER PERSIAN SWAY. PERSIA JUDEA FAMOUS
Chronological Table.
CHAPTER II. GREEK AND JEW. Alexander the Great.
CHAPTER III. JUDEA FIGHTS FOR ITS FAITH. B.C.E. B.C.E.
CHAPTER IV. JUDEA FIGHTS FOR ITS INDEPENDENCE. SYRIA. JUDEA.
CHAPTER V. THE APOCRYPHA.
CHAPTER VI. IN THE DIASPORA.
BOOK II. JUDEA INDEPENDENT Judea's Rulers and Teachers. ROME.
CHAPTER VII. PHARISEES AND SADDUCEES. Simon.
CHAPTER VIII. A ROYAL HOUSE AGAIN. Aristobulus.
CHAPTER IX. RIVAL CLAIMANTS FOR THE THRONE. Aristobulus II.
CHAPTER X. JUDEA UNDER ROMAN SUZERAINTY. Growth of Rome.
CHAPTER XI. HEROD.
CHAPTER XII. HILLEL
CHAPTER XIII. HEROD'S SUCCESSORS.
BOOK III. JUDEA UNDER ROME.
CHAPTER XIV. PILATE THE PROCURATOR. Procurators in general.
CHAPTER XV. JESUS OF NAZARETH.
CHAPTER XVI. THE ALEXANDRIAN SCHOOL. Jew and Greek.
CHAPTER XVII. PHILO-JUDEUS.
CHAPTER XVIII. A JEWISH KING ONCE MORE.
CHAPTER XIX. THE LAST PROCURATORS. Roman Emperors and
CHAPTER XX. JUDEA'S WAR WITH ROME. Revolution.
CHAPTER XXI. THE SIEGE. The North Succumbs.
CHAPTER XXII. THE FALL OF JERUSALEM.
CHAPTER XXIII. JOSEPHUS AND HIS WORKS.
BOOK IV. THE TALMUDIC ERA.
CHAPTER XXIV. JOCHANAN BEN ZAKKAI.
CHAPTER XXV. THE PALESTINIAN ACADEMIES.
CHAPTER XXVI. JUDAISM AND THE CHURCH. The Development of Christianity.
CHAPTER XXVII. ROME'S REGIME AFTER JUDEA'S OVERTHROW. Roman
CHAPTER XXVIII. AKIBA. Love and Law.
CHAPTER XXIX. LAST STRUGGLE FOR LIBERTY. Bar Cochba.
CHAPTER XXX. R. JUDAH, "THE SAINT," AND HIS TIMES.
CHAPTER XXXI. THE MISHNA.
Chronological Table. (2)
CHAPTER XXXII. BABYLONIA AND ITS SCHOOLS.
CHAPTER XXXIII. CHRISTIANITY THE STATE CHURCH OF ROME. Rome's Decline.
CHAPTER XXXIV. THE DIVISION OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. Julian.
Chronological Table. (3)
CHAPTER XXXV. THE TALMUD.
CHAPTER XXXVI. SAYINGS AND STORIES OF THE SAGES OF THE TALMUD.
CHAPTER XXXVII. SAYINGS AND STORIES OF THE SAGES.
BOOK V. SHEM AND JAPHETH.
CHAPTER XXXVIII. BEGINNING OF THE JEWISH MIDDLE AGES. In the Byzantine Empire.
CHAPTER XXXIX. IN THE SPANISH PENINSULA. Gaul and the Franks.
CHAPTER XL. ARABIA. The Land and the People.
CHAPTER XLI. MOHAMMED.
CHAPTER XLII. ISLAM AND THE JEWS.
Index
Title: A Thousand Years of Jewish History
From the days of Alexander the Great to the Moslem Conquest of Spain
Author: Maurice H. (Maurice Henry) Harris
Language: English
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"For a thousand years in thy sight, are but ... as a watch in the night"
Psalms, xc, 4.
besieged
Jerusalem Besieged by Titus. (See page 167.)
A Thousand Years
of Jewish History
From the Days of Alexander the Great
To the Moslem Conquest of Spain
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS,
MAPS AND NOTES.
BY THE
Rev. Maurice H. Harris, A. M., Ph. D.
Author of "People of the Book."
"History of the MediÆval Jews"
"Modern Jewish History"
"Selected Addresses," etc.
SIXTH EDITION.
Revised and Enlarged
NEW YORK:
BLOCH PUBLISHING CO., 40 EAST 14TH ST.,
1914.
Copyright, 1911
By MAURICE H. HARRIS
PRESS OF
PHILIP COWEN
NEW YORK
