Herod and Augustus

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).

All those interested in the history and archaeology of the Roman Near East, Judaea, Jewish Studies, as well as the History of Judaism and Early Christianity.

AUGUSTAN AND HERODIAN IDEOLOGY
Herod, Rome, and the Diaspora, Erich S. Gruen
The Augustan Programme of Cultural Renewal and Herod, Karl Galinsky
Herod and Rome: Was Romanisation a Goal of the Building
Policy of Herod? Achim Lichtenberger

LITERARY AND DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE
Herod, Augustus, and Nicolaus of Damascus, Mark Toher
Herod, Josephus, and Laqueur: A Reconsideration, Joseph Sievers
The Coins of Herod the Great in the Context of the
Augustan Empire, Donald T. Ariel
Dating Documents in Herodian Judaea, David Goodblatt

AUGUSTAN AND HERODIAN BUILDING PROGRAMMES
Rome and Jerusalem: Public Building and the Economy, Joseph Geiger
Palaces and the Planning of Complexes in Herod’s Realm, Ehud Netzer
Herodian Entertainment Structures, Joseph Patrich

INDIVIDUAL HERODIAN SITES
Herod’s Caesarea on Sebastos: Urban Structures and
Influences, Barbara Burrell
The Architectural Origins of Herod’s Temple Mount, Dan Bahat

APPLIED ARTS IN THE HERODIAN KINGDOM
Wall Paintings of the Hellenistic and Herodian Period in the
Land of Israel, Silvia Rozenberg
Herodian Pottery, Malka Hershkovitz

ADMINISTRATION AND CLIENT NETWORK
Herod, Augustus, and the Special Relationship:
The Significance of the Procuratorship, Anthony A. Barrett
Client Kings’ Armies under Augustus: The Case of Herod, Denis B. Saddington
Nabataean Royal Propaganda: A Response to Herod and
Augustus? Stephan G. Schmid
Herod’s Contemporaries in Britain and the West, John Creighton

RELIGION UNDER AUGUSTUS AND HEROD
One Temple and Many Synagogues: On Religion and State
in Herodian Judaea and Augustan Rome, Daniel R. Schwartz