Queen Berenice

A Jewish Female Icon of the First Century CE

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Tal Ilan
This is a biography of Queen Berenice, the daughter of King Agrippa I, sister of King Agrippa II, wife of two kings and lover of the emperor designate Flavius Titus. A Jew of the 1st century, she witnessed some of the foundational events of her time like the emergence of Christianity and the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem, is. She met and socialized with the most important people of her day - Philo the Philosopher (who was at one time her brother-in-law), Paul the Apostle (whose trial she witnessed) and Josephus the Historian who told part of her story.
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2022
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Tal Ilan, PhD (1991), Hebrew University Jerusalem is professor of Jewish Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin. She is the editor of A Feminist Commentary on the Babylonian Talmud; and the author of Lexicon of Jewish Names in Late Antiquity (four volumes).
Acknowledgements
Introduction

1 Methodology
 1 Chronology
 2 Silencing
 3 Disparagement

2 Berenices Foremothers: A Long Line of Hasmonean and Herodian Queens
 1 Simon the Hasmoneans Nameless Wife, Berenices Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Grandmother (ca. 180 BCE135 BCE)
 2 John Hyrcanus Is Nameless Wife, Berenices Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Grandmother (ca. 155 BCE104 BCE)
 3 Salina Alexandra, Judah Aristobulus Is Widow, Berenices Great-Great-Great-Great-Aunt (ca. 140 BCEca. 90 BCE)
 4 Queen Shelamzion-Alexandra, Berenices Great-Great-Great- Great-Grandmother (140 BCE67 BCE)
 5 Aristobulus IIs Wife, Berenices Great-Great-Great-Grandmother (ca. 90ca. 50 BCE)
 6 Alexandra, Berenices Great-Great-Grandmother (ca. 70 BCE 26 BCE)
 7 Miriam the Hasmonean, Berenices Paternal Great-Grandmother (5329 BCE)
 8 Salome, Herods Sister, Berenices Maternal Great-Grandmother (ca. 60 BCE12 CE)
 9 Berenice, Aristobulus IVs Wife, Berenices Grandmother (ca. 33 BCE23 CE)
 10 Herodias, Berenices Paternal Aunt (ca. 10 BCEca. 50 CE)
 11 Cypros, Berenices Mother (ca. 10ca. 50 CE)

3 Berenices Early Years
 1 Judea 2842 CE
 2 Alexandria 4244 CE
 3 Chalcis
3.1.1  Herod of Chalcis
3.1.2  Agrippa Is Death
3.1.3  Mother Berenice
3.1.4  Herod of Chalcis Death
3.2.1  Queen of Chalcis
3.2.2  Brother and Sister (on Killer-Wives and Homosexuality)
 4 Caesarea-Philippi/Cilicia/Jerusalem (54 CE66 CE)
4.1.1  Herodian Women Divorcing Their Husbands
4.1.2  Foreign Dignitaries Converting to Judaism for the Sake of a Herodian Marriage
4.1.3  Jealousy
4.1.4  Incest

4 The War with Rome 6673 CE
 1 Jerusalem 66 CE
1.1.1  Excursus: Berenice and Judaism
 2 Caesarea-Philippi 6670 CE

5 Berenice in Rome
 1 The Roman Way of Telling the Story of the Berenice-Titus Romance
1.2.1  Catamites and Eunuchs
1.2.2  Cleopatra Minor
1.2.3  Invitus invitam
1.2.4  Excursus: Romes Cleopatra
 2 Other Information about Berenice in Rome

6 Berenices End: Reception History and Fiction
 1 Berenice of Sardinia
 2 The French School
 3 The Jewish Interpretation
 4 But She Came Back to (or Stayed in) Rome
 5 A Final Speculation

7 Julia Crispina, Berenices (Female) Descendant

Two Conclusions
 1 The Men in Her Life
 2 The First Century

Appendix
 Berenices Timeline
Bibliography
Index
The book is intended for academics of classical studies, Jewish studies, Christian theology, history, as well as an educated and interested general public (especially those interested in biographies).
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