Samuel Rocco was born in Milan, Italy but now lives in Jerusalem with his wife and three sons. He served with the Israeli Defense Forces, and has worked as a teacher and a curator at the Bible Lands Museum, Jerusalem. Having studied biblical and classical archaeology at undergraduate level at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, he went on to complete his MA there, before researching his PhD on Herodian Judaea at Bar-Ilan University. Samuel has given papers at numerous international conventions, and written articles for several academic journals. This is his first book for Osprey Publishing. The author lives in Jerusalem.
Introduction & Chronology | p. 3 |
Herod and his Army | p. 4 |
The King of the Jews - the status of the army | |
Strength and Composition | p. 11 |
Army strengths: the civil war - the First Nabataean War - at Herod's death | |
Ethnic compositon | |
Supreme and senior command | |
Engineers and artillery | |
Herod's bodyguard | |
The Field Army | p. 21 |
Cavalry | |
Infantry | |
Reserves - the military colonies | |
Equipment | |
Fortifications | |
Campaigns | p. 24 |
The conquest of the kingdom and siege of Jerusalem, 40-37 BC | |
The First Nabataean War, 32-31 BC | |
Aelius Gallus' expedition to Arabia, 25 BC | |
The Second Nabataean War, 9 BC | |
The army after Herod | |
Select Bibliography | p. 43 |
Plate Commentaries | p. 43 |
Index | p. 48 |
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