title: Rome And Jerusalem: The Clash Of Ancient Civilizations
author:  Martin Goodman 
description: Martin Goodman is Professor of Jewish Studies at Oxford and President of the Oxford Centre for Jewish and Hebrew Studies. He is a Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford and the British Academy. His Rome and Jerusalem, published in 2008, was acknowledged as a landmark in the study of the Jewish people in the Roman Empire, and has been translated into six languages. In 2002 he edited the Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies, which was awarded the National Jewish Book Award for Scholarship.
zlib_text: The Future of Rome
  Roman, Greek, Jewish and 
  Christian Visions
  Edited by Jonathan J. Price  
  and Katell Berthelot
  
  THE FUTURE OF ROME
  How was the future of Rome, both near and distant in time, imagined
  by different populations living in the Roman Empire? It emerges
  from this collection of essays by a distinguished international team of
  scholars that Romans, Greeks, Jews and Christians had strikingly
  different answers to that question, revealing profound differences in
  their conceptions of history and historical time, the purpose of history
  and the meaning of written words and oral traditions. It is also argued
  that practically no one living under Rome’s rule, including the
  Romans themselves, did not think about the question in one form
  or another.
  jonathan j. price is Lessing Professor of Ancient History at Tel
  Aviv University. He is the author of Jerusalem Under Siege: The
  Collapse of the Jewish State, 66–70 C.E. (1992), Thucydides and
  Internal Conﬂict (Cambridge, 2002), and dozens of