Publications B. Isaac 1 Publications Benjamin H. Isaac Books & Monographs 1. van Royen, R.A. and Isaac, B.H.. The Arrival of the Greeks, The Evidence from the Settlements, Amsterdam, 1979, pp.ix; 76. 2. Isaac, Benjamin and Roll, Israel. Roman Roads in Judaea, I, The Scythopolis-Legio Road, Oxford, B.A.R., 1982, 149 pp. 3. Oppenheimer, Aharon, in collaboration with Isaac, Benjamin and Lecker, Michael. Babylonia Judaica, Wiesbaden, Beihefte zum TAVO, 1983, 550 pp. 4. Isaac, Benjamin, The Greek Settlements in Thrace until the Macedonian Conquest, pp. xv, 304, Brill, Leiden 1986. 5. Isaac, Benjamin, The Limits of Empire: The Roman Army in the East, pp. xiv, 519 (Oxford, Oxford University Press 1990, revised edition 1992; paperback: 1993). 6. Fischer, Moshe; Isaac, Benjamin and Roll, Israel. Roman Roads in Judaea, ii, The Jaffa - Jerusalem Roads (B.A.R. International Series, Oxford 1996), pp.ix, 434. 7. Isaac, Benjamin, The Near East under Roman Rule: Selected Papers (Brill, Leiden 1998), pp. xix, 481 8. Isaac, Benjamin, The Invention of Racism in Classical Antiquity, (Princeton University Press, 2004), pp. xiv, 592 Edited 1. Isaac, Benjamin & Oppenheimer, Aharon, Studies on the Jewish Diaspora in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods (Tel-Aviv 1996, Heb.) 2. Isaac, Benjamin with Miriam Eliav-Feldon and Joseph Ziegler, The Origins of Racism in the West (Cambridge University Press, 2009), pp. xiv, 333 3. Corpus Inscriptionum: Iudaea-Palaestina, vol. 1, Part 1: Jerusalem (co-editor) (Berlin: De Gruyter 2010) 4. Corpus Inscriptionum: Iudaea-Palaestina, vol. 2: Caesarea and the Middle Coast (coeditor) (Berlin: De Gruyter 2011) 5. Corpus Inscriptionum: Iudaea-Palaestina, vol. 1, Part 2: Jerusalem (co-editor) (Berlin: De Gruyter 2012) 6. Benjamin Isaac &Yuval Shahar (eds.), Judaea-Palaestina, Babylon and Rome: Jews in Antiquity, (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism, No.147, 2012) Articles and Chapters in Books 1. Colonia Munatia Triumphalis and Legio Nona Triumphalis? Talanta 3 (1971),pp. 1143 2. Gichon, M. and Isaac, B.H., A Flavian Inscription from Jerusalem. Israel Exploration Journal 24 (1974),117-123. 3. Isaac, B.H. and Roll, I., A Milestone of AD 69 from Judaea. Journal of Roman Studies 56 (1976), pp.9-14. 1 Publications B. Isaac 2 4. Best, J.G.P. and Isaac, B.H., The Helvetians from Foederati to Stipendiarii. Talanta vii-ix (1977), pp.11-32. 5. Isaac, B., Milestones in Judaea: From Vespasian to Constantine. PEQ 110 (1978), 4760. 6. Applebaum, S., Isaac, B., Landau, Y., Varia Epigraphica. Scripta Classica Israelica iv (1978), pp.113-159. 7. Isaac, Benjamin and Roll, Israel. Judaea in the Early Years of Hadrian's Reign. Latomus 38 (1979), pp.54-66 8. Isaac, Benjamin and Roll, Israel, Legio II Traiana in Judaea. ZPE 33 (1979), pp.149-156 9. Roman Colonies in Judaea: The Foundation of Aelia Capitolina, Jerusalem in the Second Temple Period, Abraham Schalit Memorial Volume, ed. A. Oppenheimer, U. Rappaport and M. Stern (Jerusalem 1980, pp. 340-60 (Hebrew) 10. ‘Trade Routes to Arabia and the Roman Army’ in W.S. Hanson & L.J.F. Keppie, Roman Frontier Studies, 1979 (Oxford, BAR, Int. Series, 1980), 889-901. 11. Talanta 12-13 (1980-81), pp.31-53 (=No. 9, English, revised) 12. The Decapolis in Syria, a Neglected Inscription. ZPE 44 (1981), pp.67-74. 13. Applebaum, S., Isaac, B. and Landau, Y. Varia Epigraphica II. Scripta Classica Israelica, 6 (1982). 14. Isaac, Benjamin and Roll, Israel. Legio II Traiana in Judaea - a Reply. Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 47 (1982), pp.131-132. 15a. A Donation for Herod's Temple in Jerusalem. Israel Exploration Journal, 33 (1983), pp.86-92 (English). 15b. A Donation for Herod's Temple in Jerusalem. Eretz Israel, 18 (1985), pp.1-4 (= no.14a, in Hebrew). 16a. Cassius Dio on the Bar Kokba Revolt.In: Oppenheimer, Aharon et al. (eds.) The Bar Kokhba Revolt — New Studies, pp.106-112, Jerusalem, Yad Ben Zvi, 1984.(Hebrew) 16b. Cassius Dio on the Revolt of Bar Kokhba. Scripta Classica Israelica 7 (1983-4)[1986], pp.68-76 (=no.15a, in English) 17a. Judaea after AD 70. Journal of Jewish Studies, 35 (1984), pp.44-50 (English) 17b. Judaea after AD 70. In: Kasher, A.,Oppenheimer, A., Rappaport (eds.) Man and Land in Eretz-Israel in Antiquity Jerusalem, Yad Ben Zvi, 1986 (in Hebrew), pp.87-94. 18. Bandits in Judaea and Arabia. Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, 88 (1984), pp.171-203. 19. Bandits in Judaea and Arabia. Cathedra 39 (1986), pp.3-36 (=no.17, revised, in Hebrew) 20a. Isaac, Benjamin and Oppenheimer, Aharon. The Revolt of Bar Kokhba, Scholarship and Ideology. Journal of Jewish Studies, 36 (1985), pp.33-60. 20b. Isaac, Benjamin and Aharon Oppenheimer. The Revolt of Bar Kokhba, Scholarship and Ideology. Amos Kloner and Yigal Tepper (eds.), The Hiding Complexes in the Judean Shephelah (Tel Aviv 1987, in Hebrew), 405 - 428. 21. The Roman Army in Jerusalem and its Vicinity. In: Studien zu den Militärgrenzen Roms iii, Vorträge des 13. Internationalen Limeskongresses, Aalen 1983 (Stuttgart 1986), pp.635-640. 22. Reflections on the Roman Army in the East. in: The Defence of the Roman and Byzantine East, Proceedings of a Colloquium held at the University of Sheffield, April 1986, Oxford 1986, pp.383-395. 2 Publications B. Isaac 3 23. Military Diplomas and Extraordinary Levies. In: Heer und Integrationspolitik, Die römischen Militärdiplome als historische Quelle, Passauer Historische Forschungen 2, KölnWien 1986, eds. W. Eck und H. Wolff, pp. 258-64. 24. Two Greek Inscriptions from Tell Abu-Shusha. In: B. Mazar (ed.), Geva: Archaeological Discoveries at Tell Abu-Shusha, Mishmar Ha-'Emeq (Jerusalem 1988, in Hebrew), pp. 224-5. 25. Roman Administration and Urbanization, Cathedra 48 (1988), 9 - 16 (in Hebrew). 24a. Roman Administration and Urbanization. In: Kasher, A., Rappaport, U. and Fuks, G. (eds.) Greece and Rome in Eretz Israel, Collected Essays (Jerusalem 1990), 151-9 (= no. 24, in English). 26. The Meaning of ‘Limes’ and ‘Limitanei’ in Ancient Sources. Journal of Roman Studies 78 (1988), 125-147 27. Trade-routes to Arabia and the Roman Presence in the Desert, T. Fahd (ed.) L'Arabie préislamique et son environnement historique et culturel, Actes du Colloque de Strasbourg, 24-27 June 1987 (1988), 24-56. 28. Luttwak's `Grand Strategy' and the Eastern Frontier of the Roman Empire, D.H. French and C.S. Lightfoot (ed.), The Eastern Frontier of the Roman Empire, Colloquium at Ankara, September 1988 (1989), 231-4. 29. Isaac, Benjamin. The Roman Army in Judaea: Police Duties and Taxation, Roman Frontier Studies 1989, ed. V.A. Maxfield & M.J. Dobson (Exeter 1991), 458-461. 30. A Seleucid Inscription from Jamnia-on-the-Sea: Antiochus V and the Sidonians, Israel Exploration Journal 41 (1991), 132 - 44. 31. Burgi and Burgarii, Jews and Judaism in the Second Temple, Mishna and Talmud Period: Studies in Honour of S. Safrai I. Gafni, A. Oppenheimer and M. Stern (eds.) (Jerusalem, 1993, in Hebrew), 235 - 242. 32. An Open Frontier, in Frontières d'Empire: Nature et signification des frontières romaines, eds. P. Brun, S. van der Leeuw & C.R. Whittaker (Nemours 1993), 105-114. 33. Religion, Economy and the Christianization of the Empire in: Religion and Economy ed. M. Ben Sasson (Jerusalem 1994), 115-120 (Heb.). 34. Roman Frontier Policy: East and West in: M. Toch & D. Mendels (eds.), Frontier, Town and the Transition from Antiquity to the Middle Ages Jerusalem, Magnes Press, 1995), 33-40 (Heb.) 35. Ethnic Groups in Judaea under Roman Rule, Dor Le-Dor: Studies in Honour of J. Efron, eds. A. Kasher and A. Oppenheimer (Jerusalem 1995), 201-9 (in Hebrew) 36. Tax Collection in Roman Arabia: A New Interpretation of the Evidence from the Babatha Archive, Mediterranean Historical Review 9 (1994), 256-66 37. Hierarchy and Command Structure in the Roman Army in Y. Le Bohec (ed.), La hiérarchie (Rangordnung) de l’armée romaine sous le Haut-Empire: Actes du Congrès de Lyon 1994 (Paris 1995), 23-31. 38. Isaac, Benjamin. Eusebius and the Geography of Roman Provinces, for D. Kennedy (ed.), The Roman Army in the East (Journal of Roman Archaeology, Supplementary series, 18, Ann Arbor, MI, 1996), 153-67. 39. Isaac, Benjamin. Orientals and Jews in the Historia Augusta: Fourth-Century Prejudice and Stereotypes, The Jews in the Hellenistic-Roman World: Studies in Memory of Menahem Stern, eds. I.M. Gafni, A. Oppenheimer, D.R. Schwarz (Zalman Shazar Center for Jewish History, Jerusalem, 1996), 101-18 3 Publications B. Isaac 4 40. The Army in the Late Roman East: The Persian Wars and the Defence of the Byzantine Provinces, in The Byzantine and Early Islamic Near East III. States, Resources and Armies. Papers of the Third Workshop on Late Antiquity and Early Islam. eds. A. Cameron, L. Conrad, G. King, (Darwin Press, Princeton, 1995), pp.125-55 41.Dedications to Zeus Olybris, ZPE 117 (1997), 126-128 42. The Cambridge Ancient History, Vol. XIII (eds. A. Cameron & P. Garnsey, 1998), Chapter 18: ‘The Eastern Frontier’, pp. 437-460. 43. ‘Roma Aeterna’, Historia 2 (1998), 19-31 (in Hebrew) 44. Isaac, Benjamin. ‘Jews, Christians and Others in Palestine: the Evidence from Eusebius’ in M. Goodman (ed.), Jews in a Graeco-Roman World, (Oxford 1998), 65-74. 45. ‘Jerusalem from the Great Revolt to the Reign of Constantine’ in: The History of Jerusalem: The Roman and Byzantine Periods (760-638 CE), eds. Y. Tsafrir and S. Safrai, Jerusalem, 1999), 1-13 (Heb.) 46. ‘Inscriptions from Jerusalem after the First Revolt’, ibid., 167-79 (Heb.) 47. ‘Epigraphic Remains from the Byzantine Period’, ibid. 383-9 (Heb.) 48. ‘Between the old Schürer and the new: archaeology and geography’ in: A. Oppenheimer (ed.) Jüdische Geschichte in hellenistisch-römischer Zeit: Wege der Forschung: Vom alten zum neuen Schürer (Munich, 1999), 181-91 49. ‘Roman Attitudes towards Jews and Judaism’, Zion 66 (2001), 41-72 (Hebrew) 50. ‘Army and Power in the Roman World’, in: Army and Power in the Ancient World. Publications of the Seminar für alte Geschichte der Universität Heidelberg, Franz Steiner Verlag, 2002, ed. Angelos Chaniotis and Pierre Ducrey, 181-191. 51. ‘Roman Religious Policy and the Bar Kokhba War’ in Peter Schäfer (ed.), The Bar Kokhba War Reconsidered: New Perspectives on the Second Jewish Revolt Against Rome (2003), 37-54. 52. Isaac, Benjamin with Hannah Cotton and Werner Eck, ‘Titus Pomponius Bassus, Governor of Judaea and a New Military Diploma from 89/90 CE’ Israel Museum Studies in Archaeology 2 (2003), 17-31 53. ‘Proto-racism in Graeco-Roman antiquity’World Archaeology 38(1) (2006), 32-47. 54. ‘Roman Organization in the ‘Arabah in the Fourth Century’ in: Piotr Bienkowski & Katharina Galor (eds.), Crossing the Rift: Resources, routes, settlement patterns and interaction in the Wadi Arabah (Oxford, 2006), 215-221 55. Review article: G.S.P. Freeman-Grenville, Rupert L. Chapman III & Joan E. Taylor, The Onomasticon by Eusebius of Caesarea (Jerusalem 2003); R. Steven Notley & Ze’ev Safrai, Eusebius, Onomasticon: A Triglott Edition with Notes and Commentary; Jewish and Christian Perspectives Series, 9; (Brill, 2005), Henoch 29/1 (2007), 167-72 56. ‘Roman Victory Displayed: Symbols, Allegories, Personifications?’ in Y. Eliav et al. (eds.), The Sculptural Environment of the Near East: Reflections on Culture, Ideology and Power (Leuven 2008), 575-604 57. Isaac, Benjamin with M. Eliav-Feldon and J. Ziegler: ‘Introduction’, in: The Origins of Racism in the West (Cambridge University Press, 2009), 1-32 58. Isaac, Benjamin ‘Racism: a Rationalization of Prejudice in Greece and Rome’ in: The Origins of Racism in the West (Cambridge University Press, 2009), 32-56 59. Isaac, Benjamin. ‘Latin in Cities of the Roman Near East’ in Hannah Cotton (ed.), Epigraphy and Beyond (Cambridge, 2009), 43-72 4 Publications B. Isaac 5 60. Isaac, Benjamin ‘Attitudes Towards Provincial Intellectuals in the Roman Empire’ in Erich Gruen (ed.), Cultural Identity and the Peoples of the Ancient Mediterranean (Getty, Los Angeles, 2011), 491-518 61. Isaac, Benjamin, Corpus Inscriptionum: Iudaea-Palaestina, vol. 1.1: Jerusalem (coeditor), pp.1-37: Introduction (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2010) 62. Isaac, Benjamin, ‘Core-Periphery Notions,’ Scripta Classica Israelica 30 (2011), 63-82. 63. Benjamin Isaac &Yuval Shahar, ‘Introduction’ in: Isaac & Shahar (eds.), JudaeaPalaestina, Babylon and Rome: Jews in Antiquity, (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism, 2012), pp.1-8. Articles and Chapters, Accepted for Publication Isaac, Benjamin. ‘Inscriptions from Banias’ Atiqot (forthcoming) Isaac, Benjamin, ‘Ammianus on Foreigners’ in Maijastina Kahlos (ed.), The Faces of the Other: Religious and Ethnic Otherness in the Late Roman World Isaac, Benjamin, ‘Hatra against Rome and Persia: From Success to Destruction in Lucinda Dirven (ed.), Colloquium on Hatra, Proceedings (Peeters) Book Reviews 1. Review of M. Sartre, Inscriptions grecques et latines de la Syrie, vol. xiii,1. Israel Exploration Journal, 34 (1984), pp.279-281. 2. Review of E. Schürer, The History of the Jewish People in the Age of Jesus Christ, III 1, edited by G. Vermes, F. Millar and M. Goodman. Journal of Roman Studies 77 (1987), pp. 245-6. 3. Review of (1) Freeman, P. and Kennedy, D. (eds.). The Defence of the Roman and Byzantine East. Proceedings of a Colloquium Held at the University of Sheffield in April 1986 British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara Monograph, No. 8. B.A.R. S297 1986. (2) Parker S.T. Romans and Saracens: a History of the Arabian Frontier (American Schools of Oriental Research, dissertation series, 6) Winnona Lake: Eisenbrawns (for A.S.O.R.) 1986; (3) Parker, S.T. (ed.). The Roman Frontier in Central Jordan. Interim Report on the Limes Arabicus Project, 1980-85 B.A.R. S340 (i-ii) 1987. Journal of Roman Studies 78 (1988), 239-41. 4. Review of E. Schürer, The History of the Jewish People in the Age of Jesus Christ, III 2, edited by G. Vermes, F. Millar and M. Goodman. Journal of Roman Studies 79 (1989), 2445. 5. Review article: ‘The Babatha Archive: A Review Article’, Israel Exploration Journal 42 (1992), 62 - 75. 6. David Kennedy & Derrick Riley, Rome's Desert Frontier From the Air (Batsford, London 1990), pp.256 and 188 figures and photographs, Israel Exploration Journal 43 (1993), 271-3. 7. Review article: ‘Inscriptions from Southern Jordan: M. Sartre, Inscriptions grecques et latines de la Syrie, Tome xxi, Inscriptions de la Jordanie, Tome iv: Pétra et la Nabatène 5 Publications B. Isaac 6 méridionale, du wadi al-Hasa au golfe de ‘Aqaba (Paris, 1993)’, Scripta Classica Israelica 13 (1994), 163-8. 8. Tabula Imperii Romani: Iudaea/Palaestina by Yoram Tsafrir, Leah Di Segni, Judith Green, with contributions by Israel Roll and Tsvika Tsuk (The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Jerusalem 1994) Scripta Classica Israelica. 14 (1995), 191f. 9. Edward Dabrowa, Legio X Fretensis: A Prosopographical Study of its Officers (I-III c.A.D.), Historia Einzelschriften, Heft 66, Stuttgart 1993, pp.128, Scripta Classica Israelica. 14 (1995), 169-71. 10. C.R. Whittaker, Frontiers of the Roman Empire: A Social and Economic Study (Ancient Society and History) Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994 for: Journal of Roman Studies 85 (1995), 292-4 11. J. Nollé, Side im Altertum: Geschichte und Zeugnisse. Band I: Geographie, Geschichte, Testimonia, Griechische und Lateinische Inschriften (1-4), Bonn: Dr. Rudolf Habelt, 1993. for: Journal of Roman Studies 85 (1995), 304f. 12. S.K. Drummond & L.H. Nelson, The Western Frontiers of Imperial Rome, Armonk, NY and London, UK: M.E. Sharpe, 1994, Pp. x + 276, 3 maps. ISBN 1-56324-150-1; 1-56324151-X. for: Journal of Roman Studies 86 (1996), 209f. 13. E. Dabrowa (ed.), The Roman and Byzantine Army in the East, Proceedings of a Colloquium held at the Jagiellonian University, Kraków in September 1992 (Kraków 1994), 311 pp. Journal of Roman Archaeology 10 (1997), 518-520 14. N.J.E. Austin & N.B. Rankov, Exploratio: Military and Political Intelligence in The Roman World from the Second Punic War to the Battle of Adrianople, London and New York: Routledge, 1995. pp. xiii, 292. Hugh Elton, The Frontiers of the Roman Empire, Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1996. Pp. ix, 150. David L. Kennedy (Ed.), The Roman Army in the East, Ann Arbor, MI: Journal of Roman Archaeology, Supplementary Series Number 18, 1996. pp. 320 Journal of Roman Studies 88 (1998), 179f. 15. Richard Alston, Soldier and Society in Roman Egypt: A Social History (Routledge, London and New York, 1995) for: American Historical Review, 1998, 1230f. 16. ‘Inscriptions and religious identity on the Golan’ Review article of Robert C. Gregg and Dan Urman, Jews, Pagans, and Christians in the Golan Heights: Greek and Other Inscriptions of the Roman and Byzantine Eras (Scholars Press. Atlanta, Georgia) in John H. Humphrey, The Roman and Byzantine Near East, 2, Some Recent Archaeological Research, (Portsmouth, RI, 1999), 179-88. 17. David F. Graf, Rome and the Arabian Frontier: from the Nabataeans to the Saracens (Variorum Collected Studies Series, Aldershot, Hampshire 1997) for: Scripta Classica Israelica 18 (1999), 208-210 18. Rudolf Haensch, Capita provinciarum (Mainz am Rhein: Philipp von Zabern, 1997), for: Scripta Classica Israelica 20 (2001). 19. Warwick Ball, Rome in the East: the transformation of an empire (London, 2000), Antiquity 76 (2002), 274f.. 20. Seth Schwartz, Imperialism and Jewish Society, 200 B.C.E. to 640 C.E., Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001, The American Historical Review 2003, 1255. 6 Publications B. Isaac 7 21. Clayton Miles Lehmann & Kenneth G. Holum, The Greek and Latin Inscriptions of Caesarea Maritima, Boston, MA 2000, Journal of Roman Archaeology 16 (2003), 665-668 22. C. Delacampagne, Die Geschichte des Rassismus, Düsseldorf and Zürich, Artemis & Winkler Verlag, 2005, Scripta Classica Israelica 25 (2006), 186-8 23. S. Thomas Parker, The Roman Frontier in Central Jordan: Final Report on the Limes Arabicus Project, 1980-1989, 2 vols., Washington, DC 2006, Journal of Roman Studies 97 (2007), 370f. 24. David Kennedy, Gerasa and the Decapolis (Duckworth, 2007), Review article for Ancient History Bulletin 22 (2008), 184-9 25. Michael Blömer, Margherita Facella & Engelbert Winter (eds.), Lokale Identität im Römischen Nahen Osten: Kontexte und Perspektiven. (Stuttgart 2009 ), Scripta Classica Israelica 31 (2012), 217-221 Book Reviews, forthcoming Vanita Seth, Europe’s Indians: Producing Racial Difference, 1500-1900. (Duke University Press 2010) for: Comparative Studies in Society & History. Articles in Encyclopedia’s and Handbooks Anchor Bible Dictionary (ed. D. N. Freedman): entries on Banditry, Bar Kokhba Revolt, Roman Colonies, and Roman Roads in Palestine. Handwörterbuch der antiken Sklaverei eds. Ingomar Weiler und Johannes Deißler, Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz (Stuttgart 2008): entry on Racism G. Boys-Stones et al., The Oxford Handbook of Hellenic Studies (Oxford 2009), ‘Ethnic Prejudice and Racism’, 328-339 ‘Infrastructure’ in: Oxford Handbook of Jewish Daily Life in Roman Palestine (ed. C. Hezser) (Oxford University Press 2010), pp.145-164. The Ancient Mediterranean and the Pre-Christian Era in: Albert S. Lindeman & Richard S. Levy (eds.) Antisemitism: a History (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2010), 34-64 Encyclopedia and Handbook Articles, forthcoming Stephen Wagley (ed.), Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome: entry on Barbarians: Barbarians and Greece R. Bagnall et al. (ed.), Blackwell’s Encyclopedia of Ancient History: entries on xenophobia, racism, migration, emigrants, immigrants, foreigners, extranei, ethnicity, Black people, neighbourhood and neighbours, Palestine. 7 Publications B. Isaac 8 Dexter Hoyos (ed.), A Companion to Roman Imperialism (Brill, Leiden): ‘19 Eastern hegemonies and setbacks, ad 14–96’ Richard Thomas & Jan Ziolkowski (eds.), The Virgil Encyclopedia (Wiley Blackwell), ‘Race and Racism’ Atlas: Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World, ed. R. Talbert (Princton 2000): Map 70. 8