Herod and Augustus ─ Papers Presented at the IJS Conference, 21st-23rd June 2005

The Institute of Jewish Studies invited scholars of the Roman Emperor and contemporary King of Judea to London in June 2005 to trade thoughts and findings on the period. All but two of the 21 presentations have been revised and included in these proceedings. Though some consideration is given to literature and other documents, much of the emphasis is on architecture, art, and archaeology. Among the topics are whether Romanization was a goal of the building policy of Herod, the coins of Herod the Great in the context of the Augustan empire, the architectural origins of Herod's Temple Mount, Herodian pottery, Herod as an example of client kings' armies under Augustine, and religion and the state in Herodian Judea and Augustinian Rome. Annotation c2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

David Jacobson (Ph.D. London University) is both a scholar of classical archaeology and a materials technologist, holding a Chair in Manufacturing Technology at Buckinghamshire New University. He has served on the Executive of the Palestine Exploration Fund for over a decade and chairs its Publications Committee. He has published widely on Herodian history, architecture and numismatics, most recently a monograph on The Hellenistic Paintings of Marisa (2007).Nikos Kokkinos (D.Phil. Oxford University) is a Wingate Scholar and Honorary Research Fellow at the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University College London. He has written numerous articles on literary, documentary and archaeological material, and his books include The Enigma of Jesus the Galilean (Greek, 1980/2007), Antonia Augusta (1992/2002), The Herodian Dynasty (1998), and The World of the Herods (editor 2007).