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To Caesar What Is Caesar’s: Tribute, Taxes, and Imperial Administration in Early Roman Palestine

Fabian E. Udoh

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Contents

Cover
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Table of Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
1 • Roman Tribute in Jewish Palestine under Pompey (63–47 B.C.E.)
- Cicero, Dio Cassius, and Appian
- Tribute and Exactions
- Conclusion
2 • Caesar’s Favors (47–44 B.C.E.)
- Tribute: For the City of Jerusalem, and for the City of Joppa
  - Tribute for the City of Joppa
  - Tribute for the City of Jerusalem
- Further Reductions, Collection
- Local Taxes
- Territorial Grants: Joppa, “The Villages in the Great Plain,” and Lydda
  - The Senate, Joppa, and the Plain of Sharon
  - Joppa, “The Villages in the Great Plain,” and Lydda
- Grants of Freedom: Billeting, Military Service, and Molestation
  - Billeting
  - Military Service
  - Molestation: Angareia, the Temple Tax
3 • Cassius and Antony in the East (43–40 B.C.E.)
- Cassius in Syria (43–42 B.C.E.)
- After Philippi: Antony and the Jewish State (42–31 B.C.E.)
4 • Herodian Taxation (37 B.C.E.–4 B.C.E.)
- The Herods and Roman Tribute
- Roman Tribute and the Status of Judea
- Appian’s Bell. civ. 5.75 and Herod’s Appointment
- A King’s Accounting
- Herod’s Taxes
  - Land and Property Taxes
  - The “Head Tax”
  - Tolls and Duties on Goods in Transit
  - Sales Taxes
  - House Tax
- Epilogue
5 • Taxation of Judea under the Governors
- Judea and the Provincial Census
- Judea and Provincial Taxes
  - Tributum Soli
  - Tributum Capitis
  - Other Taxes and the System of Collection
- Conclusions
6 • Tithes in the Second Temple Period
- Tithes: For Priests or for Levites?
  - Biblical Laws and Postexilic Harmonizations
  - “First Tithes” to Priests and to Levites
  - Num 18:21–32; Lev 27:30–33 in Ezra/ Nehemiah’s Restoration
- Centralized Collection
- Offered Also to Individual Priests and Levites
- Tithes of Livestock
- Summary and Conclusion
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
Passages
Modern Authors
Subjects

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Published: 2005

Publisher: Brown Judaic Studies

ISBN(s)

978-1-951498-57-3 (ebook)
978-1-951498-58-0 (PDF)

Subject

Religion

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