The Jewish population of the Roman Near East revolted against its Roman rulers three times: first between AD 66 and 70, then under Trajan in AD 116-117 and finally, the Bar Kochba revolt raged in Judea between 132 and 135, suppressed at heavy cost.

Theme: Rebellion against the Empire

• Mladen Popovic, "Historical introduction"
• Tilman G. Moritz, "A history of victors? Josephus' account of the First Jewish War"
• Vassilis Pergalias, "Soldiers of the Empire - The Third Gallica during the Revolt of AD 66"
• Sean Manning, "A War at Sea? - The Victoria Navalis"
• Sidney E Dean, "Titus ante Portas - The Siege of Jerusalem, AD 70"
• Graham Sumner, "Roman soldier in Judea - Roman imperial legionary cavalryman"
• Joseph Hall, "Rebellion in the Diaspora - The Second Jewish Revolt, AD 116-117"
• Arnold Blumberg, "Judea's Last Bid for Freedom - The Bar Kochba Revolt"
• Tilman G. Moritz, "On the cover"

Features:

• Owen Rees, "Let slip the Dogs of War - Dogs in ancient Greek warfare"
• Marc G. DeSantis, "Conquering the Sea from the Land - Alexander's antidote to Persian sea power