Kasher, Aryeh
Jews, Idumaeans, and Ancient Arabs

Relations of the Jews in Eretz-Israel with the Nations of the Frontier and the Desert during the Hellenistic Roman Era (332 BCE-70 BE).

Aryeh Kasher analyzes the historical evidence on the conversion of the Idumaeans and Ituraeans, and he exposes the hostile propaganda aimed at the Hasmonaeans. The conversion of both the Idumaeans and Ituraeans was not made under duress. The author attempts to prove that this was in fact the result of a long historical process, which was accomplished by free choice and had arisen out of a common hostility to the Seleucid rule and the Hellenistic cities in the neighborhood. The relationship between the Jews and the Nabataeans developed from a great friendship during the time of the first Hasmonaeans to a bitter enmity in later days. A survey of this relationship gives special interest to the wars led by Alexander Jannaeus and Herod. XIX,264 Seiten mit 17 Karten, Leinen (Texts and studies in ancient Judaism/Texte und Studien zum Antiken Judentum; Vol. 18/Mohr Siebeck 1988) leichte Lagerspuren/near mint