A

HISTORY

OF NEW TESTAMENT TIMES

IN PALESTINE

175 BC-70 AD

By

SHAILER MATHEWS

I.- The Jews under the Seleucids

II.- Antiochus Epiphanes and the Loss of Religious Liberty

III.- Judas Maccabeus and the Reestablishment of Religious Liberty (165-161 BC)

IV.- Jonathan and the Beginnings of Nationality (161-143 BC)

V.- Simon and the Consolidation of Judaism (143-135 BC) 

VI.- John Hyrcanus and Political Independence (135-105 BC)

VII.- The Struggle or the Pharisees with the Asmoneans and the Sadducees (105-60 BC) 

VIII.- The Roman Conquest of Judea

IX.- The Rise of the House op Antipater 

X.- Herod I and the Change of Dynasty 

XI.- Archelaus (4 BC-6 AD)

XII.- Palestine under the Romans and the Tetrarchs . 

XIII.- The Social Life of the Palestinian Jews 

XIV.- The Messianic Hope and Jesus The Messiah 

XV.- Herod Agrirpa I and Herod Agrippa II. Persecution of the Christians

XVI.- The Fall of Judea and the Rise of the Christian Church