Brill Was 70 CE a Watershed in Jewish History?: On Jews and Judaism before and after the Destruction of the Second Temple: 78 (Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity, 78)

These twenty studies ask whether changes in different fields of ancient Jewish culture were caused by the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE, what changed for other reasons, and what did not change despite that event. Review "Den Herausgebern [...] ist für die Herausgabe einer gehaltvollen und hochinteressanten Publikation zu danken, mit deren Hilfe bedeutsame Einblicke in die Dynamiken der antik-jüdischen Religionsgeschichte gewonnen werden können und die wichtige Anstöße zu weiteren Forschungsarbeiten gibt." - Beate Ego, Bochum, in: Theologische Literaturzeitung 140 (2015) "valuable contributions to the debate about the significance of the destruction [...] will interest scholars of Jewish and Roman history as well as scholars of early Christianity." - Catherine Heszer, SOAS, University of London, in: Journal for the Study of Judaism 45 (2014) About the Author Daniel R. Schwartz, Ph.D. (1980), professor of Jewish history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, works primarily in the fields of ancient Judaism and historiography, especially Josephus and 1-2 Maccabees. His most recent volume is 2 Maccabees (De Gruyter, 2008). Zeev Weiss, Ph.D. (1995), professor of archaeology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, has published extensively on Roman and Byzantine art and architecture in Palestine, including The Sepphoris Synagogue: Deciphering an Ancient Message through Its Archaeological and Socio-Historical Contexts (Israel Exploration Society, 2005).