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Michael Grant (1) (1914–2004)

Autor de History of Rome

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Obras de Michael Grant

History of Rome (1978) 686 copias
The Twelve Caesars (1975) 614 copias
The Rise of the Greeks (1987) 493 copias
Cleopatra (1972) 440 copias
The Classical Greeks (1989) 409 copias
Constantine the Great (1993) 352 copias
The World of Rome (1960) 331 copias
From Alexander to Cleopatra (1982) 318 copias
Saint Peter (1994) 308 copias
Grecia y Roma (1991) 303 copias
The Ancient Historians (1970) 302 copias
The Fall of the Roman Empire (1976) 301 copias
Readings in the Classical Historians (1992) — Editor — 290 copias
The Ancient Mediterranean (1969) 289 copias
A guide to the ancient world (1986) 239 copias
Julius Caesar (1969) 227 copias
The Army of the Caesars (1974) 216 copias
The Etruscans (1980) 210 copias
The Jews in the Roman World (1973) 201 copias
Nero (1970) 199 copias
The Climax of Rome (1968) 195 copias
Gladiators (1967) 184 copias
Ancient History Atlas (1971) 169 copias
Saint Paul (1976) 168 copias
Latin Literature: An Anthology (Penguin Classics) (1958) — Editor — 168 copias
Roman myths (1971) 76 copias
Roman Literature (1954) 68 copias
Roman Readings (1958) 67 copias
Great Museums of the World: Pompeii and Its Museums (1979) — Introducción — 51 copias
Herod the Great (1971) 43 copias
The Roman forum (1709) 40 copias
The Emperor Constantine (1993) 37 copias
Art and Life of Pompeii and Herculaneum (1979) — Autor — 33 copias
Cambridge (1966) 25 copias
Art in the Roman Empire (1995) 24 copias
Women: Women in History (2004) 22 copias
Ancient History (1965) 18 copias
Greeks (1958) 18 copias
The Civilizations of Europe (1966) 12 copias
Romans 12 copias
Roman imperial money (1972) 6 copias
The Sayings of The Bible (1994) 4 copias
Os romanos 1 copia
Civilization in Europe (1971) 1 copia
Isik : Bir Yoklar Romani (2014) 1 copia

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This is exactly what the title says it is. It is a biographical guide. You are not going to get a complete biography of every Roman Emperor from 31BC to 476AD in less than 400 pages. You will, however, get a very good guide to all of them. Recommended for anybody interested in the Roman Empire.
 
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everettroberts | 4 reseñas más. | Oct 20, 2023 |
$8 to $20. Excellent Condition, lots of illustrations.
 
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susangeib | 2 reseñas más. | Sep 24, 2023 |
There have been numerous books trying to tease out the actual history of Jesus of Nazareth from the conflicting and incomplete information contained in the four Gospels of the New Testament but they all founder on one fundamental fact: the only record of Jesus' life is that of those gospels and they simply don't give enough information to draw firm conclusions.
Grant is a historian and he uses those skills to explain the milieu in which Jesus' ministry occurred, but that ministry occurred in a very brief period of time in Jewish history, perhaps two years, while the entire area was wracked with conflict between the Romans, their Herodian surrogates and various Jewish groups. The Jewish historian Josephus doesn't cover the period in any detail and then there is the problem of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the incredible cache of documents that appears to be linked to the Essene settlement in Qumran. While the documents themselves don't throw any light specifically on Jesus' life, they do give historians some insight into the complex reality of Jewish politics at the time, sufficient to give anyone pause when trying to draw firm conclusions.
Grant's key conclusion is that Jesus did not see himself as the Messiah, a Jewish religious-political leader, nor the son of God, but rather as someone with a special mission to bring the Kingdom of God to earth. Unfortunately, almost no one else agreed with him, even his disciples, and his mission failed. His followers, mainly centered around his brother James in Jerusalem, kept some sort of belief alive for a few years until they were snuffed out in the Jewish revolts against the Romans. Paul, who never knew Jesus in person, picked up his mission and focused it on the Gentiles, breaking cleanly with Jewish leaders, but even Paul died without a lot of success.
But then, inexorably over several centuries, the fledgling religion grew until under the emperor Constantine, it became Rome's official religion.
Grant is clearest in outlining how Jesus' mission failed. He began preaching in synagogues, but then, Grant believes, was forced to resort to doing so on his own, in the open, by opposition from traditional Jewish leaders. The execution of John the Baptist convinces him to move farther afield to his homeland of Galilee, but when the Sadducees start to move against him there, he decides to confront them directly, in Jerusalem. That decision, Grant argues, was based on Jesus' identification with Jewish martyrs and his belief that he was destined to die in order to bring on the Kingdom of God on earth. Clearing the money-changers from the temple was a direct assault on the Sadducees' authority and guaranteed they would move to get rid of him, which they did.
Grant explains the difficulties of deciding which alleged facts to accept from the Gospel stories, assuming that many were added in later centuries by church apologists. His assumption is that facts that are difficult for the church to explain are more likely to be true since authorities would have gotten rid of them unless they were so widely believed to be true to make that impossible. But that means that any facts that align with later doctrine are suspicious, an obvious major problem.
Further muddying the waters, Grant believes that Jesus consciously emulated certain Jewish prophets in order to explain his ministry as the fulfillment of their prophecies. But then later Christian writers also added facts to make Jesus' acts correspond with the predictions of other prophets, a tangle that is difficult to parse.
What I appreciated most about Grant's book is his overall outline of Jesus work. Other than the birth stories, little is known of his life until he was around 30 years old. From that point forward, Grant stitches together a believable chronology of the next two years, weaving information primarily from Mark, considered by experts to be the oldest Gospel, Luke and Matthew, with a few additions from John, which Grant considers the least useful. Given the jumbled chronologies of the four Gospels, that in itself is a useful effort.
Beyond that, there is a lot of speculation. Was Jesus a carpenter or does the Hebrew word also connote something broader, a builder perhaps? Did Jesus clearly see a difference between the long-expected Jewish Messiah, the later Christian belief that he was the Son of God, the existing Jewish belief in a "Son of Man", and Grant's insistence that he saw himself as something different from all of those, as someone with a mission to bring the Kingdom of God into existence on earth? Given the complete lack of any mention of outreach toward the Gentiles in the Gospels, how did the Christian church end up being so anti-Jewish?
If you're interested in Bible history, Grant's work is knowledgeable and his conclusions interesting if not always convincing. Given the paucity of facts any attempt at a Life of Jesus faces, that is about the best one can say of any similar book.
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