Laura Cochran

Jerusalem Burning

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Robert Canfield’s gift for storytelling and meticulous research brings this history to life, and his use of textual, linguistic, and cultural sources illuminates this history. His explanations of these source materials are crucial, especially for the non-specialist reader. It places a society’s experiences and ideologies in their historical reality: what they shared with their neighbors, what made them distinctive, how they interpreted society-altering events, and the lessons they took from the violence and upheaval they experienced.”