M . AVI-YONAH , Geschichte der Juden im Zeitalter des Talmud . 1962 . Pp . XV + 290 . ( Walter de Gruyter , Berlin . ) Professor Avi-Yonah is well known to the scholarly world as the foremost living authority on the historical geography of Palestine in the Hellenistic and Roman age , and as an expert in epigraphy , art and numismatics . The present work , a revised translation of a Hebrew book first published in 1946 , is his chief contribution to historical synthesis . The book constitutes in the main a political history of Palestinian Jewry from the suppression of the revolt of Bar-Kochba ( A . D . 135 ) to the Arab conquest in the seventh century ; yet it allots much space to economic history and its social repercussions as well . Religious and cultural developments are on purpose dealt with less in view of the fact that to those aspects much attention has been already paid by former scholars . After a brief introduction which summarizes the history of the country prior to the time ...
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