{{Short description|Israeli historian of Ancient Rome and Judaea}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2024}} {{Use American English|date=August 2024}} {{Infobox person | name = Israel Shatzman | image = Israel Shatzman.jpg | native_name = ישראל שצמן | native_name_lang = he | birth_date = 25 November 1934 | birth_place = Binyaminah, [[Mandatory Palestine]] | death_date = 24 October 2017 | alma_mater = [[Hebrew University of Jerusalem]] | employer = Hebrew University of Jerusalem }}
'''Israel Shatzman''' ({{Langx|he|ישראל שצמן}}; 25 November 1934 – 24 October 2017) was an Israeli historian. He served as a Professor of History at the [[Hebrew University of Jerusalem]] starting in 1976. He has also been a Fellow at the [[Israel Institute for Advanced Studies]], Vice President for Academic Affairs at the [[Open University of Israel]] (1979-1984), Director at the [[National Library of Israel]] (1990-1997), and served two two-year stints as President of the Israel Society for the Promotion of Classical Studies. He took emeritus status at Hebrew University in 2003.
Shatzman was a scholar of [[ancient Rome]] and has written extensively on the [[Military of ancient Rome|Roman military]]. He also has covered [[Judea]] in antiquity, both during the pre-Roman [[Hellenistic period]] and the rule of the [[Hasmonean kingdom]], as well as the integration into the Roman empire as [[Judaea (Roman province)|Roman Judea]].
==Biography== Shatzman was born on 25 November 1934 in Binyaminah, then a part of [[Mandatory Palestine]] in the south [[Mount Carmel|Carmel]] region of northern Israel, near [[Haifa]]. The famous rabbi [[Solomon Schechter]] was an uncle of his mother. After his mandatory service in the Israeli army, he moved to Jerusalem in 1956 where he studied Ancient History at the [[Hebrew University of Jerusalem|Hebrew University]]. There, he studied under [[Alexander Fuks]] and Chaim Wirszubski, where he concentrated on both the [[Hellenistic period]] of Greek influence in the Eastern Mediterranean as well as the [[Ancient Rome|Roman era]]. During his post-doctorate, he spent two years at [[Cambridge University]], where he worked with [[Peter Brunt]] and wrote his book ''Senatorial Wealth and Roman Politics'', considered the authoritative work on the topic for the time.<ref name="Retirement">{{cite journal |last1=Wasserstein|first1=David J. |author-link=David J. Wasserstein |date=2003 |title=Israel Shatzman |journal=Scripta Classica Israelica |volume=22 |issue= |pages=ix-x |url=https://scriptaclassica.org/index.php/sci/article/view/3691 |doi= |access-date=}}</ref><Ref name="obit">{{cite journal |last1=Geiger |first1=Joseph |date=2018 |title=Israel Shatzman 1934-2017 |journal=Scripta Classica Israelica |volume=37 |issue= |pages=210–211 |url=https://scriptaclassica.org/index.php/sci/article/view/2115 |doi= 10.71043/sci.v37i.2115|access-date=|doi-access=free }}</ref>
He served as head of the department of history at the newly-established [[Ben-Gurion University of the Negev|University of the Negev]] from 1970 to 1974. He returned to teach at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1976, and acquired a full professorship in 1985. He served as an editor of the academic journal ''Scripta Classica Israelica'' for volumes 1-5 and 10, as well as two terms as president of the Israel Society for the Promotion of Classical Studies (which publishes ''Scripta Classica Israelica''). He served as Director at the [[National Library of Israel]] from 1990 to 1997. That time period was after the end of the [[Cold War]] which eased communication and travel to Eastern Europe, and he took advantage of the opportunity to acquire and document various preserved Hebrew manuscripts from the former Eastern Bloc. He was a Fellow at the [[Israel Institute for Advanced Studies]] in 1995–1996.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Israel Shatzman|url=https://iias.huji.ac.il/people/israel-shatzman|access-date=2021-07-03|website=iias.huji.ac.il}}</ref> He took emeritus status at Hebrew University in 2003 and retired from teaching, but continued to publish research and articles. A ''[[festschrift]]'' was published in Shatzman's honor in 2009 for his 75th birthday.<ref name="Retirement" /><Ref name="obit" />
Shatzman married his wife Tehiya in 1959, also from Binyaminah. He died on 24 October 2017 after a three-year struggle with illness. He was survived by his wife, three daughters, and three granddaughters.<Ref name="obit" />
== Selected works == '''English-language Books''' * {{Cite book|last=Shatzman |first=Israel |title=Senatorial Wealth and Roman Politics |date=1975 |location=Brussels |publisher=Latomus}} * {{Cite book|last=Shatzman |first=Israel |title=The Armies of the Hasmonaeans and Herod: From Hellenistic to Roman Frameworks |date=1991 |publisher=Mohr Siebeck |series=Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism 25 |location=Tübingen |isbn=3-16-145617-3}}
'''Articles and chapters''' * {{cite journal |last=Shatzman |first=Israel |title=The Roman General's Authority over Booty |journal=Historia |volume=21 |date=1972 |pages=177–205 }} * {{cite journal |last=Shatzman |first=Israel |title=The Integration of Judaea into the Roman Empire |journal=Scripta Classica Israelica |volume=18 |date=1999 |pages=49–85 |doi=10.71043/sci.v18i.4065 |url=https://scriptaclassica.org/index.php/sci/article/view/4065 |issn=0334-4509 |doi-access=free }} * {{Cite book|last=Shatzman|first=Israel |title=The Practice of Strategy: From Alexander the Great to the Present |chapter=The Roman Republic: From Monarchy to Julius Caesar |date=2011|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-173175-4 |doi=10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199608638.001.0001}}
'''Festschrift''' * {{cite book |editor-first=Joseph |editor-last=Geiger |editor2-first=Hannah M. |editor2-last=Cotton |editor2-link=Hannah Cotton |editor3-first=Guy D. |editor3-last=Stiebel |editor3-link=Guy Stiebel |title=Israel's Land: Papers Presented to Israel Shatzman on his Jubilee |location=Raanana |date=2009 |publisher=Open University of Israel, Israel Exploration Society |isbn=978-965-06-1052-4 }}
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==External links== * [https://search.worldcat.org/search?q=Israel+Shatzman&itemType=book&itemSubType=book-printbook%2Cbook-digital%2Cbook-thsis%2Cbook-mss%2Cbook-braille%2Cbook-largeprint%2Cbook-mic%2Cbook-continuing&author=Shatzman%2C+Israel Works by Israel Shatzman] on Worldcat, includes his many Hebrew-language books and articles
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