Israel Shatzman (25 November 1934 - 24 October 2017) was an Israeli historian. He has been Professor of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1976-), a Fellow at the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies and Director at the National Library of Israel (1990-1997).[1]

Israel Shatzman
Born25 November 1934
Died24 October 2017
Alma materHebrew University of Jerusalem
EmployerHebrew University of Jerusalem

Shatzman was a scholar of ancient Rome and has written extensively on the Roman military. He also has covered Judea in antiquity, both during the pre-Roman Hellenistic period and the rule of the Hasmonean kingdom, as well as the integration into the Roman empire as Roman Judea.[2]

Bibliography edit

  • Senatorial Wealth and Roman Politics (Brussels: Latomus, 1975)[3]
  • The Armies of the Hasmonaeans and Herod: From Hellenistic to Roman Frameworks, (Heidelberg, Germany: Mohr Siebeck Verlag, 1991)[4]
  • The Integration of Judaea into the Roman Empire, Scripta classic israelica, Volume 18, (1999)[2]
  • The Roman Republic: From Monarchy to Julius Caesar, Chapter 2 in The Practice of Strategy: From Alexander the Great to the Present, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011)[5]

Notes edit

  1. ^ "Israel Shatzman". iias.huji.ac.il. Retrieved 2021-07-03.
  2. ^ a b Shatzman, Israel (1999). "The Integration of Judaea into the Roman Empire". Scripta Classica Israelica. 18: 49–84. ISSN 0334-4509.
  3. ^ Shatzman, Israel (1975). Senatorial Wealth and Roman Politics. Latomus.
  4. ^ Shatzman, Israel (1991). The Armies of the Hasmonaeans and Herod. Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism. Vol. 25 (1 ed.). Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck. ISBN 978-3-16-158776-4.
  5. ^ Shatzman, Israel (2011). The Roman Republic: From Monarchy to Julius Caesar. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199608638.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-173175-4.