Imperialism and Jewish Society: 200 B.C.E. to 640 C.E.

Schwartz starts off by saying (correctly) that we don't and can't know a lot of the answers, specifically because of literary sources. He then goes on to do that: almost every sentence says “possibly”, “it might”, “perhaps”. I am reminded once again that literary analysis is not science. It can be clever and it might be true, but then again, it might not. I also found the author a tad arrogant, which didn't help. Also, “subelite” is not a word.