Table of Contents Acknowledgments      Abbreviations, Nomenclature, and Markings      Preface      Introduction—A Forgotten Queen, a Forgotten World: The Untold Story of Salome Alexandra      PART ONE: TROUBLED TIMES 1. The Silent Women of Judea: Recovering Salome Alexandra’s Name      2. A World of Divided Loyalties: Hellenism, Judaism, Or Both?      PART TWO: WARRIOR PRIESTS 3. A Family of Warrior-Priests: The Hasmoneans      4. Seeking Judea’s Missing Women: Uncovering Salome Alexandra’s Lost Years      5. John Hyrcanus: The Prophet?      PART THREE: WARRIOR QUEENS 6. A Judean Woman Who Did Not Know Her Place: Salina Alexandra      7. Warrior Queens to the North: Cleopatra Thea and Her Descendants      8. Warrior Queens of Egypt: Cleopatra II and Cleopatra III      PART FOUR: SALOME ALEXANDRA ASCENDANT 9. A Man Who Knew His Place: King Alexander Jannaeus      10. Queen Triumphant: The Improbable Rise of Salome Alexandra      11. Judea’s Golden Age: The Blessings of Salome Alexandra      PART FIVE: THE MYSTERIOUS WOMEN OF THE DESERT 12. “The Fornications of the Prostitute”: Salome Alexandra and the Mysterious Women of the Dead Sea Scrolls      13. The Dancing Women of the Egyptian Desert: The Mysterious Therapeutae      PART SIX: SALOME ALEXANDRA’S REIGN 14. “A Wonderful Administrator”: Salome Alexandra’s Pacification of the Middle East      15. Contention and Conflict: Salome Alexandra’s Final Struggle      PART SEVEN: SALOME ALEXANDRA’S LEGACY 16. The Last Hasmoneans: The Other Alexandras      Conclusion      Historical Chronology      Chapter Notes      Bibliography      Index     

“Atkinson looks at the circumstances surrounding her success and argues that if not for Queen Salome Alexandra, both Judaism and Christianity would have developed very differently”—Reference & Research Book News.