Revolt and Resistance in the Ancient Classical World and the Near East ─ In the Crucible of Empire

This book contains state of the field discussion about the nature of revolt and resistance in the ancient world. While it doesn’t cover the entire ancient world, it does focus in on the key revolts of the pre-Roman imperial world.

John J. Collins is Holmes Professor of Old Testament Criticism and Interpretation at Yale University. His recent books include Introduction to the Hebrew Bible (2nd ed.; Fortress, 2014) and Scriptures and Sectarianism. Essays on the Dead Sea Scrolls (Mohr Siebeck, 2014). He is co-editor of the Eerdmans Dictionary of Early Judaism (2010) and the Oxford Handbook of the Dead Sea Scrolls (2010) and editor of the Oxford Handbook of Apocalyptic Literature (2014) and serves as general editor of the Anchor Yale Bible and Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library.J.G. Manning, Ph.D. (University of Chicago, 1992) is the William K. and Marilyn M. Simpson Professor of History and of Classics at Yale with appointments also in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and at Yale Law School. His research has two primary research foci, the economic and legal History of the Hellenistic world, and Egyptian history in the long run. He is co-Director of the Yale Initiative for the Study of Antiquity and the Premodern World.