Judea under Roman Domination: The First Generation of Statelessness and Its Legacy

This study focuses on a relatively neglected but momentous period in Judean history, which saw the end of the Hasmonean dynasty and the beginning of Roman domination of Judea, in the middle part of the first century BCE, leading up to the kingship of Herod (67-37 BCE). In this period renowned Roman figures such as Pompey the Great, Julius Caesar, Gaius Cassius (a conspirator against Caesar), and Mark Anthony, led the Roman Republic on the eve of its transformation into an Empire, each havin...