Imperialism And Jewish Society, 200 B.C.E. To 640 C.E. by Seth Schwartz

(Princeton University Press © 2001 Princeton, NJ.) In Imperialism and Jewish Society, 200 B.C.E. to 640 C.E., Seth Schwartz, the Gerson D. Cohen Professor of Rabbinic Culture and Professor of History at Jewish Theological Seminary, offers a challenging blow to regnant reconstructions of Judaism and Jewish life in the Hellenistic and Roman periods. Schwartz's compelling sweep of Jewish history from 200 B.C.E. to 640 C.E. "traces the impact of different types of foreign domination on the inner struc­ture of ancient Jewish society, primarily in Palestine." (1) Schwartz argues that from the 2ND