Roman Palestine

The governors of the Roman provinces in the Palestine region had a large amount of administrative power, however, they and the province they led were - to degrees varying with time - under the authority of the Roman legatus (legate) who governed over Syria from Antioch (see Roman Syria and Coele Syria (Roman province) for the province under their direct administration). During the early imperial period (from 6 CE), Judaea was governed locally by equestrian prefects (later also styled procurators), but remained under the authority of the consular governor of Roman Syria, whose seat was at Antioch. After the First Jewish-Roman War, the arrangement changed: from 70 CE Judaea was a praetorian province governed by a legatus Augusti pro praetore, who also commanded the legion stationed in the province (Legio X Fretensis). Province of Judaea For the time period between the first dissolution of the Herodian client statelets into the empire during Herod's immediate successors, to the change of name for the province from Judaea to Palaestina after the Bar Kokhba Revolt, see Roman administration of Judaea (AD 6–135). Province of Syria Palaestina • Aufidius Priscus (293/305) • Aelius Flavianus (303) • Urbanus (304–307) • Valerius Firmilianus (308/9–310/11) • Valentinianus (310/311) == Economy ==

The study of the ancient economy is based on a mixture of the archaeological and historical (including epigraphic) records. For the Roman period, these typically focus on the activities and lives of the rich. The Talmud offers perspectives on rural life in Roman Palestine. The historian Daniel Sperber suggested that the region's economy declined during the Crisis of the Third Century. == See also ==