Front Matter Book I: A Vassal State Under Persian Sway Greek and Jew Fight for Judea's Faith Fight for Independence The Apocrypha In the Diaspora Book II: Judea Independent Pharisees and Sadducees A Royal House Again Rival Claimants for Throne Under Roman Suzerainty Herod Hillel Herod's Successors Book III: Judea Under Rome Pilate the Procurator Jesus of Nazareth The Alexandrian School Philo-Judeus Jewish King Once More The Last Procurators Judea's War with Rome The Siege The Fall of Jerusalem Josephus and His Works Book IV: Talmudic Era Jochanan ben Zakkai Palestinian Academies Judaism and the Church Rome's Regime Akiba Last Struggle for Liberty Judah and His Times The Mishna Babylonia and Its Schools Christianity and Rome Division of Roman Empire The Talmud Stories of Talmud Sages Stories of The Sages Book V: Shem and Japheth Start of Jewish Middle Ages In the Spanish Peninsula Arabia Mohammed Islam and the Jews