Israel Shatzman (25 November 1934 - 24 October 2017) was an Israeli historian. He has been Professor of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1976-), a Fellow at the

Israel Institute for Advanced Studies The Israel Institute for Advanced Studies (; IIAS, or IAS in Israel) is a research institute in Jerusalem, Israel, devoted to academic research in physics, mathematics, the life sciences, economics, and comparative religion. It is a self-governi ...

and Director at the

National Library of Israel The National Library of Israel (NLI; he, הספרייה הלאומית, translit=HaSifria HaLeumit; ar, المكتبة الوطنية في إسرائيل), formerly Jewish National and University Library (JNUL; he, בית הספרים הלא� ...

(1990-1997). Shatzman was a scholar of

ancient Rome In modern historiography, ancient Rome refers to Roman civilisation from the founding of the city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD. It encompasses the Roman Kingdom (753–509 BC ...

and has written extensively on the

Roman military The military of ancient Rome, according to Titus Livius, one of the more illustrious historians of Rome over the centuries, was a key element in the rise of Rome over "above seven hundred years" from a small settlement in Latium to the capital o ...

. He also has covered

Judea Judea or Judaea ( or ; from he, יהודה, Standard ''Yəhūda'', Tiberian ''Yehūḏā''; el, Ἰουδαία, ; la, Iūdaea) is an ancient, historic, Biblical Hebrew, contemporaneous Latin, and the modern-day name of the mountainous sou ...

in antiquity, both during the pre-Roman

Hellenistic period In Classical antiquity, the Hellenistic period covers the time in Mediterranean history after Classical Greece, between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and the emergence of the Roman Empire, as signified by the Battle of Actium in ...

and the rule of the Hasmonean kingdom, as well as the integration into the Roman empire as

Roman Judea Judaea ( la, Iudaea ; grc, Ἰουδαία, translit=Ioudaíā ) was a Roman province which incorporated the regions of Judea, Samaria, and Idumea from 6 CE, extending over parts of the former regions of the Hasmonean and Herodian kingdoms o ...

Bibliography

* ''Senatorial Wealth and Roman Politics'' (

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: Latomus, 1975) * ''The Armies of the Hasmonaeans and Herod: From Hellenistic to Roman Frameworks'', (Heidelberg, Germany:

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, 1991) * ''The Integration of Judaea into the Roman Empire'', Scripta classic israelica, Volume 18, (1999) * ''The Roman Republic: From Monarchy to Julius Caesar'', Chapter 2 in ''The Practice of Strategy: From Alexander the Great to the Present'', (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011)

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1934 births 2017 deaths Israeli historians Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni Academic staff of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem {{Israel-historian-stub