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  1. Spies of the Bible : espionage in Israel from the Exodus to the Bar Kokhba revolt

    Sheldon, Rose Mary, 1948-
    London : Greenhill Books ; St. Paul, MN : MBI Pub., c2007.

  2. Guarding the Caesars : Roman internal security under the Flavian dynasty

    Sheldon, Rose Mary, 1948-
    Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2023]

    "This book is the story of the survival of the Flavian emperors in Rome, a place where seventy-five percent of all emperors died of assassination. It explores the methods used by the emperor Vespasian to establish a new dynasty out of the chaos of civil war, to maintain his power, and to pass along the dynasty to his two sons, Titus and Domitian"--

  3. Kill Caesar! : assassination in the early Roman Empire

    Sheldon, Rose Mary, 1948-
    Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2018]

    Exploring the history of internal security under the first Roman dynasty, this book answers the enduring question: If there were nine thousand men guarding the emperor, why did Rome have the highest rate of assassination of any world empire? Sheldon concludes that the repeated problem of "killing Caesar" reflected the empire's larger dynamics and turmoil.

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