TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ilan,Tal
TI  - Queen Berenice: A Jewish Female Icon of the First Century CE 
T2  - Studies in Theology and Religion
SN  - 9789004511033
AV  - DS122.8.B47 
U1  - 933/.490092 23
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Queens
KW  - Judaea (Region)
KW  - Biography
KW  - Jewish women
KW  - Jews
KW  - History
KW  - 168 B.C.-135 A.D
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Preliminary Material; Tal Ilan --; Copyright page; Tal Ilan --; Dedication; Tal Ilan --; Acknowledgements; Tal Ilan --; Frontispiece; Tal Ilan --; Introduction; Tal Ilan --; Chapter 1 Methodology; Tal Ilan --; Chapter 2 Berenice's Foremothers: A Long Line of Hasmonean and Herodian Queens; Tal Ilan --; Chapter 3 Berenice's Early Years; Tal Ilan --; Chapter 4 The War with Rome 66-73 CE; Tal Ilan --; Chapter 5 Berenice in Rome; Tal Ilan --; Chapter 6 Berenice's End: Reception History and Fiction; Tal Ilan --; Chapter 7 Julia Crispina, Berenice's (Female) Descendant; Tal Ilan --; Two Conclusions; Tal Ilan --; Appendix; Tal Ilan --; Bibliography; Tal Ilan --; Index of Modern Authors; Tal Ilan --; Index of Subjects and Names; Tal Ilan --; Index of Sources; Tal Ilan
N2  - This is a biography of Queen Berenice, the daughter of King Agrippa I, sister of King Agrippa II, wife of two kings and lover of the emperor designate Flavius Titus. A Jew of the 1st century, she witnessed some of the foundational events of her time like the emergence of Christianity and the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem, is. She met and socialized with the most important people of her day - Philo the Philosopher (who was at one time her brother-in-law), Paul the Apostle (whose trial she witnessed) and Josephus the Historian who told part of her story
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004511033
ER  -