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Bruce Chilton is Bernard Iddings Bell Professor of Philosophy and Religion and director of the Institute of Advanced Theology at Bard College. His books include The Herods: Murder, Politics, and the Art of Succession and Aramaic Jesus: Tradition, Identity, and Christianity’s Mother Tongue. He lives in Annandale, NY.
“Chilton’s meticulous and definitive biography exposes the tensions, political intrigues, and cultural interactions that shaped the Roman empire at the turn of the millennia. A breakthrough in the study of this unique figure in Jewish and Roman history.”—Alan Avery-Peck, College of the Holy Cross “Bruce Chilton provides readers with penetrating insight into the enigmatic figure of Berenice, a prominent woman who played influential roles in her native Jewish setting and in the imperial Roman setting.”—Craig A. Evans, author of Jesus and the Remains of His Day “A sure guide to the remarkable role of Queen Berenice near the centre of some of the most momentous events in Jewish history and the causes of her notoriety both in her lifetime and in the imagination of later generations.”—Martin Goodman, author of Herod the Great: Jewish King in a Roman World
