ISBN10: 0713994479, ISBN13: 9780713994476, [publisher: Penguin Books Ltd, United Kingdom, London] Softcover In AD 70, after a war that had flared sporadically for four years, three Roman legions under the future Emperors Vespasian and his son Titus surrounded, laid siege to, and eventually devastated the city of Jerusalem, destroying completely the magnificent Temple which had been built by Herod only eighty years earlier. What brought about this extraordinary conflict, with its extraordinary consequences? This superb book, by one of the world's leading scholars of the ancient Roman and Jewish worlds, narrates and explains this titanic struggle, showing why Rome's interests were served by this policy of brutal hostility, and how the first generation of Christians first distanced themselves from its Jewish origins and then became increasingly hostile to Jews as their influence spread within the empire. The book thus also provides an exceptional and original account of the origins of anti-Semitism, whose history has had often cataclysmic reverberations down to our own time. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
[Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2007]

Penguin Books, Limited. Used - Very Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects. Penguin Books, Limited ISBN 0713994479 9780713994476 [GB]

London : Allen Lane, Date: 2007. Hardcover. Good. Original blue boards, gilt lettered spine, b/w illustrations, 8vo. 2007. London : Allen Lane ISBN 0713994479 9780713994476 [NL]

ISBN10: 0713994479, ISBN13: 9780713994476, [publisher: Penguin Books Ltd] Hardcover
[Houston, TX, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2007]

ISBN10: 0713994479, ISBN13: 9780713994476, [publisher: Allen Lane] Hardcover First Edition First edition second impression hardback, 2007, with unclipped jacket. In overall fine condition in a near-fine, slightly rubbed dust jacket (now protected). Binding tight and appears almost unopened. Internally clean, no annotation or inscriptions; text, maps and illustrations bright and clear throughout. Not an old library book.
[Shropshire, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2007]
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Penguin Books Ltd 2007 2007. Hardcover, 656 pages, English, 240 x 165 mm, with some illustrations in b/w, in good order, . ISBN 9780713994476. In this magisterial history of the titanic struggle between the Roman and Jewish worlds that led to the destruction of Jerusalem, Goodman examines this conflict, its causes, and its consequences with unprecedented authority and thoroughness. Penguin Books Ltd 2007 2007 ISBN 0713994479 9780713994476 [BE]