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Queen Salome : Jerusalem's warrior monarch of the first century B.C.E. / Kenneth Atkinson.
- Title
- Queen Salome : Jerusalem's warrior monarch of the first century B.C.E. / Kenneth Atkinson.
- Author
- Atkinson, Kenneth, 1960-
- Publication
- Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2012.
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| Text | Request in advance | DS121.8.A5 A85 2012 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xi, 284 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "Virtually unknown today, Queen Salome remained so unique that historians have largely ignored her rather than try to explain the perplexing circumstances that brought her to power. This volume recreates Queen Salome's fascinating life and the time in which she lived--an age when women ruled the Middle East"--Provided by publisher.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Pt. One: Troubled times -- The silent women of Judea: recovering Salome Alexandra's name -- A world of divided loyalties: Hellenism, Judaism, or both? -- pt. Two: Warrior priests -- A family of warrior-priests: the Hasmoneans -- Seeking Judea's missing women: uncovering Salome Alexandra's lost years -- John Hycranus: the prophet? -- pt. Three: Warrior queens -- A Judean woman who did not know her place: Salina Alexandra -- Warrios queens to the North: Cleopatra Thea and her descendants -- Warrior queens of Egypt: Cleopatra II and Cleopatra III -- pt. Four: Salome Alexandra ascendant -- A man who knew his place: King Alexander Jannaeus -- Queen triumphant: the improbable rise of Salome Alexandra -- Judea's Golden Age: the blessing of Salome Alexandra -- tp. Five: The mysterious women of the desert -- "The fornication of the prostitute": Salome Alexandra and the mysterious women of the Dead Sea scrolls -- The dancing women of the Egyptian desert: the mysterious Therapeutae -- pt. Six: Salome Alexandra's reign -- "A wonderful administrator": Saloma Alexandra's pacification of the Middle East -- Contention and conflict: Salome Alexandra's final struggle -- pt. Seven: Salome Alexandra's legacy -- The last Hasmoneans: the other Alexandra.
- ISBN
- 9780786470020 (softcover : alk. paper)
- 078647002X (softcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2012013098
- OCLC
- 770876290
- SCSB-11746454
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library